Wednesday 20 June 2018

123) Fernande Olivier

Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 1881 – 1966). French artist and model known primarily for having been the model of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him. Picasso painted over 60 portraits of Olivier.

- "A voluptuous, green-eyed, auburn-haired beauty, Fernande Olivier was the first great love of Picasso’s life and his artistic muse during the tumultuous seven-year course of their relationship." https://www.famsf.org/blog/picasso-women-behind-artist

- " In 1906 he painted her sensuously wrapped in her long reddish-brown hair." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Pablo-Picasso-Art-historian-Am…



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