One spring morning in 1957, photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent subject Pablo Picasso, at Picasso’s home near Cannes.
Alongside Duncan in his Mercedes Gullwing 300 SL was the photographer’s pet dachshund, Lump. When they arrived at Picasso’s Villa La Californie, Lump decided that he had found paradise on earth, and that he would move in with Picasso, whether the artist welcomed him or not.
This is the background for a totally original book that offers an uncommonly sensitive portrait of Picasso. [...]

David Douglas Duncan is a legendary photographer who has published more than twenty books, including Picasso’s Picassos, Picasso and Jacqueline and Goodbye Picasso. He spent years photographing the artist at his villa on the French Riviera. Duncan, a Life magazine Korean and Vietnam war photographer, lives in France, with his wife Sheila and Yo-Yo, a Norwich terrier.