Fernande Olivier in exchange for a promise not to publish anything further about their relationship as long as either of the two was alive. She died in 1966, he in 1973. Her importance is based not only on the memoirs, which were finally published in their entirety in 1988, but on the fact that she was the only one of Picasso's mistresses who knew him before he achieved fame and fortune. Paul Léautaud describes her in his "Journal". Guillaume Apollinaire also had a love affair with her. Fernande Olivier Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 26 January 1966) was
Court painter court painters was an obsolete position. Commonly more artists were granted permission by royalty who would sit for official portraits whether for private of patron purposes. Court painter A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or noble family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Especially in the Late Middle Ages, they were often given the office of valet de chambre. Usually they were given a salary and formal title, and often a pension for life, though arrangements were highly