Lump — the dog that ate Picasso

On a spring morning in 1957, David Douglas Duncan, a veteran photojournalist and friend of Picasso, arrived to visit the artist at his home in the villa 'California' near Cannes. Accompanying him was a dachshund, who had been living with Duncan in Rome for just over a year by that time. At the villa, the dog found her new home and was named Lump. This is the backstory of the book, which is an original and extraordinarily touching photo story about the friendship between Picasso and Lump. The artist not only immortalized Lump on the first day of their meeting by depicting him on a plate but also celebrated him in forty-five canvases inspired by Velázquez's masterpiece 'Las Meninas', replacing the phlegmatic greyhound in the foreground with carefree Lump. This book is an intimate portrait of Picasso and his smooth-haired friend in the family circle and the artist's studio. David Duncan, who carefully documented the last years of Picasso's life, published over 20 books and continued to manage all his projects independently until the end of his life, without using email.