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Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (French: Portrait de Ambroise Vollard) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he painted in 1910. It is now housed in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. The painting is a representation of the influential art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who played an important role in Picasso's early career as an artist.
Learn about the art dealer who championed Picasso and his cubist style. See how Picasso painted Vollard's face with shards of flesh and planes of colour, creating a caricature and a portrait at the same time.
He was physically imposing but also known to be patient and gentle, qualities captured endearingly by Bonnard in A mbroise Vollard with His Cat. In short, Vollard escapes easy categorization, as illustrated in Picasso's multifaceted portrait of him.
A pencil drawing of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard by Picasso in 1915, inspired by Ingres. Learn about the history and context of this work, and see more details and images on The Met website.
The Vollard Suite, the most significant cycle of prints made by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), was commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, a leading art dealer in Paris.
Vollard's greatest success was undoubtedly his collaboration with Pablo Picasso, which gave rise to one of the best known series of prints made in the century: the Vollard Suite. In the 1920s, Picasso's relationship with Vollard grew close: a series of etchings made by Picasso in 1927 on the theme of the artist and his model was acquired by the ...
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Ambroise Vollard (1910) Artist: Pablo Picasso. The relationship between Vollard and Picasso was ambivalent but long lived. Vollard gave Picasso his first show (with Francisco Iturrino) in Paris in 1901; the Spaniard still aged just nineteen.
