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Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 29 January 1966) was a French artist and model known primarily for having been the model and first muse of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him. Picasso painted over 60 portraits of Olivier.
Aug 5, 2001 · Fernande Olivier, the beautiful artist's model whom he first met outside the Bateau Lavoir several months after he had moved in, was the first woman (apart from his mother and sisters) to...
Fernande Olivier. In 1904, in the waning years of the Blue Period, Picasso had a tough time after his friend, Carlos Casagemas, had committed suicide. The artist changed his environment radically – he moved to Paris and settled down in one of poor quarters of the city among street actors and itinerant circus performers.
"Fernande Olivier & Pablo Picasso, in the intimacy of the Bateau-Lavoir" will be the first exhibition to focus on Fernande Olivier, a central figure of the Montmartre avant-garde. Her "Intimate Memories" evoke her condition as a woman and their difficult emancipation at the beginning of the century.
The project Fernande Olivier, Pablo Picasso and Their Friends gives us an enriching view of the life, testimony and legacy of Fernande Olivier, who played a key role in the biography of Pablo Picasso. This catalogue enables us to more deeply explore that exceptional historical moment in the early twentieth century when the artist broke into the ...
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Fernande Olivier is another of the inhabitants of the museum to be found housed within the Picasso museum. She is known for having been Picasso's first muse and for having written two books about their relationship.
May 1, 2001 · Illustrated with more than 80 contemporary photographs and paintings, Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier is a compulsively readable account of the quarrels, escapades, pleasures, and privations of the young artist and his circle between 1905 and 1912.
- Fernande Olivier
