Today the British Museum announces the major acquisition of a complete set of Picasso's Vollard Suite, which will go on display at the Museum in the summer of 2012. The suite comprises 100 etchings produced by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 and is the most important cycle of etchings produced by arguably the 20th century's most important artist. This will be the only complete Vollard Suite held by a public museum in the UK and only a handful of museums in the world are fortunate to hold a set. It is believed that this will be the first time a complete Vollard Suite has been shown in Britain in the past 50 years. This landmark acquisition for the British Museum is made possible through the extraordinary generosity of the Hamish Parker Charitable Trust in memory of the donor's father, Major Horace Parker. This outstanding acquisition will be exhibited from 3 May to 2 September 2012 in Room 90. The etchings show Picasso's developing interest in sculptural forms in the 1930s and to complement this, the British Museum will for the first time display the works alongside examples of the type of classical sculpture that Picasso was inspired by, something which the British Museum is in a unique position to do. As well as this, Rembrandt etchings and Goya prints from the Prints and Drawings collection will also be displayed as their influence can be seen in some of Picasso's works. The predominant theme of the Vollard Suite is the Sculptor's Studio (46 etchings), which deals with Picasso's engagement with classical sculpture. The etchings reveal Picasso's neoclassicism of this period. At this point he was making sculpture at his new home and studio, the ch