Picasso and His Dogs
Collection Amigos Forever
Jean-Louis Andral, Martin Bethenod (Foreword)
Norma Éditions, 2025
€25,00
In 1933, Virginia Woolf wrote a biography of the poet Elisabeth Barret Browning, narrated in the first person by her cocker spaniel, Flush. In 1936, for her memoir, All the Dogs of My Life, Elisabeth von Arnim chose to recount the lives of the 14 dogs who accompanied her, from her childhood in late 19th-century Prussia to her retirement on the French Riviera. In 1957, the dachshund Lump arrived at Pablo Picasso’s home, where he would share his life until 1973. His intimate, family life with Jacqueline, Claude, and Paloma, with the animals that inhabited the villa La Californie, but also his artistic life, as he can be found even in the variations on Velázquez’s Las Meninas. David Douglas Duncan, the friend who gave Lump to Picasso, brings together the testimonies of this shared life 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 art lovers of the 20th and 21st centuries from the perspective of their relationship to the “dogs in their lives”. Scholarly and light-hearted works, entrusted to the best specialists, mixing testimonies and stories, quotes, archive photographs and reproductions of works, which invite a singular approach, between sensitivity and humor, to the life and work of Pablo Picasso, Joan Mitchell, Andy Warhol, Francis Picabia, Pierre Bonnard, David Hockney, William Wegman, or even Gertrude Stein, Peggy Guggenheim, Yves Saint Laurent…
ISBN: 9782376660897
