DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN

PICASSO & LUMP

Picasso. His obsession was his art; his passion was for women; his love was for a dog named Lump. In 1957, multiple-award winning photo reporter David Douglas Duncan visited his friend at his house near Cannes.  He brought his dachshund, Lump, with him.

On the day of their first encounter, it was clear to both Picasso and Lump that they would be staying together. Picasso immortalised Lump with a portrait on a plate. In no time at all, Lump made it onto Picasso’s lap and, from there, into his heart. He visited the artist in his atelier, sniffed out the goat Esmeralda in the garden and tussled with the boxer dog, Yan. Depictions of Lump can also be seen in a series of 45 paintings in which Picasso newly interpreted Velásquez’s masterpiece ‘Las Meninas’. Painter and dog both died in 1973.
The multiple-award winning photographer David Douglas Duncan documented this unusual friendship. The result is a humorous, compassionate and unique picture book.

Text english, 96 pages, 89 Duplex- and 17 colour reproductions, 170 x 230 mm, bound, with book jacket, Benteli Publishers, 2006

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