Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey

by David Douglas Duncan

Book Overview

One spring morning in 1957, veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent photographic subject Pablo Picasso, at the artists villa near Cannes. Traveling with Duncan was his pet dachshund, Lump. The photographers nomadic lifestyle and his other doga giant Afghan houndhad never suited the jealous and temperamental Lump. So when they arrived at Picassos Villa La Californie that spring day, Lump decided that he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821258109
• ISBN13: 9780821258101
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

The Ultimate Wiener Dog Art

This book is an unmitigated delight. The photographs are enchanting and the story they tell completely wonderful. I was sad to learn that Picasso "dumped" Lump when his back was injured, but he gave him to David Douglas Duncan (who originally brought him) and I must think that Lump lived out his days in great happiness. In any event, this is a real charmer and a great one to keep on the coffee table to look through again and again.

Great book

Art is one of my passions, and until getting this book Picasso was just an inivative man to me with a weird style I didn't appreciate. This book changed my mind, especially after reading this part of the book,"Picasso's welcome of Lump into his family happened so fast Jacqueline was stunned--speechless. There had always been dogs around Picasso's studios and seen in some of his paintings but never in his arms--where Lump was now at home." It was really a touching book. You must own this if you are a dachshund lover. And you really must own it if you are an art lover.

pablo & pup

Charming book! It provides a glimpse into the day to day life of the artist at a very specific time of his life. If you have studied Picasso, you will enjoy a looking through this collection of photos.

100 pictures of a man and his dog

A delightful little book about a man, his dog and a reknown photographer. Picasso is of course well known, so no more about him. Lump was a dachshund owned by the photographer who descided for reasons all his own that he was Picasso's dog and that he was to live at Picasso's house. Duncan is a reknowned photographer who normally specialized in combat photography but who proves here that his eye for a picture isn't restricted to the war zone. The book is about a hundred pictures of Picasso and Lump, Picasso painting pictures of Lump, pictures painted by Picasso of Lunp. Both Lump and Picasso left us in 1973, the pictures are all that remain. Yet they tell a story all their own. Delightful, Warm, and a side of Picallo not seen before.

Artist and Dog

This book presents a charming side of Picasso, demonstrating his affection for a sweet dachshund named Lump. The photos show Picasso's universal, gullible side in allowing himself to be wonderfully manipulated by a dog ! The images of them together are unforgettable.