Life magazine photographer David Douglas Duncan — renowned for combat photographs during the Korean War — spent the late 1950s photographing Picasso in the South of France.
In April 1957, Duncan brought his dachshund Lump to the photo session at Picasso’s villa because the dog didn’t get along with his fellow canine, an Afghan hound named Kublai Khan.
According to a New York Times article, “Lump immediately decided that this would be his new home,” Mr. Duncan recalled…“He more or less said, ‘Duncan, that’s it, I’m staying here.’…”
Picasso and Lump passed away in 1973, within one week of each other.
Duncan waited more than 30 years to publish the photographs of man and dog in PICASSO AND LUMP: A Dachshund’s Odyssey. Published by Bulfinch in 2006, the 100-page book is available from Amazon.com.
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