Picasso und Lump

Aus dem Magazin Focus, Ausgabe Nr. 19 vom 08.05.2006:

Wie die Geschichte mit Lump weiterging, ist im "The Independent" in dem Artikel "How Picasso fell for a dachshund" vom 30.04.2006 nachzulesen. Dort heißt es:

And what happened to Lump? The end of the story is somewhat less idyllic. Six or seven years after Lump first set up home with Picasso, David Douglas Duncan visited the painter again. There was no sign of Lump.
"I asked where he was and they said vaguely that Lump was sick. You have to remember that Picasso was Spanish. His attitude to animals, even Lump, was a little different to maybe yours or mine. Anyway, it turned out that Lump had been taken to a vet's in Cannes.
Dachshunds have serious problems with their spines. Lump had lost the use of his back legs. When I visited the vet, the little dog dragged himself towards me in a pathetic way. And that sonofabitch of a vet had given up on him and declared him paralysed. He wasn't feeding him....
I drove overnight with Lump to Stuttgart, feeding him over my shoulder with my peanut butter crackers. There was a celebrated vet there who said immediately, after touching Lump's paws, that he was not paralysed.
After a few months' treatment, Lump came back to live with us in Rome. He always walked a bit like a drunken sailor after that but he had a good life for another 10 years. We used to carry him around in a Pan Am bag...
And do you know what? That little dog, born in 1956, and Picasso, born in 1881, died within 10 days of each other in 1973."

Am 29. März 1973 starb Lump. Picasso zehn Tage später.