PICASSO AND HIS

LOVE FOR DOGS

Diana Postolache
Seria D, Grupa 30
MUSE AND MASCOT: the artist’s life-long love
affair with his canine companions
• A professor of fine arts defined Picasso’s five passions as:
• Art
• Ego
• Image
• Women
• Dogs

• He had many dogs, including terriers, Poodles, a Boxer, Dachshunds, a German

Shepherd, Afghan Hounds, and numerous “random bred” dogs.

• Many of these were “borrowed” or “stolen” from friends and associates in the
same way that many of his women were.

• When he would leave everything behind, we would never ask for any of his
belongings, but some of his recent paintings, some of his brushes and paint and hid
dogs.
MUSE AND MASCOT: the artist’s life-long love
affair with his canine companions
• One of the most important of Picasso’s “stolen” dogs came from
David Douglas Duncan, a photographer for Life magazine.

• Picasso liked Duncan and, for nine months, the photographer was
drawn into the world of La Californie, Picasso’s villa near Cannes.

• He was given carte blanche to photograph whatever and

whomever he liked
Picasso with Lump
 Drawing of a dog

Sketch of Lump
Picasso with a dalmatian
Woman with a Dog - 1953
Woman with a dog - 1962
The bark – famous portrait
by Pablo Picasso
Boy with a dog - 1905 Two acrobats with a dog - 1905
Las Meninas, Pablo
Velasques reinterpretation
Las Meninas, Pablo Velasques
reinterpretation, featuring Lump instead of
the original dog