Picasso and his dogs

In 1933, Virginia Woolf wrote a biography of the poet Elisabeth Barret. Browning, told in the first person by his cocker spaniel, Flush. In 1936, for writing her memoirs, All the dogs of my life, Elisabeth von Arnim chose to tell the story of the 14 dogs who accompanied her, of her childhood in the Prussia from the end of the 19th century to his retirement on the French Riviera. In 1957, the Dachshund Lump arrives at Pablo Picasso's house, where he will share his life until 1973. His intimate, family life, with Jacqueline, Claude and Paloma, with the animals who populate the villa La Californie, but also its artistic life, since we found even in the variations around Velazquez's Las Meninas. David Douglas Duncan, the friend who gave Lump to Picasso, collects testimonies from this life together in Picasso and Lump, a Dachshund Odyssey. Inspired by these references, this new collection (whose title is a nod to Picasso and Lump) offers a look at the life and work of great artists and lovers of 20th and 21st century art from the perspective of the relationship to " dogs of their lives”. Scholarly and light works, entrusted to the best specialists, mixing testimonies and stories, quotes, archive photographs and reproductions of works, which invite a unique approach, between sensitivity and humor.