Vollard Suite: Le Repos du Sculpteur devant le Petit Torse

Pablo Picasso Etching on Montval paper with full margins. From the pencil signed edition of 250. The Pablo Picasso Vollard Suite is compiled of 100 intaglio prints created during the 1930’s, named after Picasso’s Art Dealer and Publisher Ambroise Vollard. The Vollard Series contains many themes which reveal Picasso’s obsession with classically derived subjects from Ovid’s Metamorphosis including the story of the Minotaur (the man-beast) and Pygmalion (the artist obsessed with the model). Somewhat auto-biographical Picasso’s Vollard Suite exposes both Picasso’s public and private personas, particularly through its concentration on the artist in his studio, and the artist with the model. At the time Picasso was engaged in a love affair with the main subject of much of the Suite Vollard, Picasso’s young model Marie Therese.