Picasso Prints

The 97 etchings and aquatints known as the Vollard Suite by Pablo Picasso have been presented anonymously to the College in honor of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller '30.

Ranking among Picasso's most famous graphic works, the Vollard Suite takes its name from the Paris art dealer and fine book publisher, Ambroise Vollard, who acquired the prints in the early 1930's. Many of Picasso's interests at the time - an especially happy period in the artist's life - such as Greek sculpture, Rembrandt's self-portraits, serenely beautiful line drawings, and the sensuously tragic legend of the Minotaur are to be found in the Vollard Suite.

The Dartmouth set is an early printing with the signatures of Picasso and Vollard as watermarks in the specially made Montvale paper. The Vollard Suite was on exhibition in Hopkins Center through most of the summer.