The opus entitled Suite Vollard (Vollard suite) is among the most extensive and most frequently mentioned of Picasso's cycles. Complete copies of Vollard's suite are extremely rare today, most of them are kept by the world's most important museums, and many folders were unbound, so that mainly individual sheets appeared on the market later. Until the end of March, the opus will be on display in the Ajdovščina underpass in Ljubljana.
The opus with the title Suite Vollard was created by agreement between the artist and the art dealer Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939). Picasso allegedly handed over the prints in exchange for one Renoir's and one Cezanne's painting. Vollard's suite was being created between 1930 and 1937, and then it was printed in an edition of 300 copies between 1937 and 1939 by the famous printer Roger Lacourier.
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The opus contains exactly one hundred graph sheets in various techniques, from drypoint and etching to lithography, and the opus Suite Vollard composes 5 thematic sets with a total of 73 motifs.
In addition to the Suite Vollard cycle, the exhibition also includes 75 posters, including a motif the famous Guernica, and 20 ceramic objects created in the famous French ceramic center Vallauris.
