Picasso: printmaker at the British Museum review – an eye-opener of a show in more ways than one
Melanie McDonough | The Standard | 6th November 2024
Picasso loved the print medium – in bursts. His print activity was dominated by two vaunted collections – the mid-career Vollard Suite and the huge 347 Suite done toward the end of his life. At well over 2000 works, printmaking was a major part of his oeuvre. It was a place to develop ideas (often inspired by classical sculpture) and express his erotic obsessions. And print offered many different techniques. He mastered all of them, with “insolent ease”.