Fernande Olivier passions sometimes exploded into violence. Among his most notable works of his Cubist period from 1907 to 1909, several were inspired by Olivier. These include "Head of a Woman (Fernande)". He later admitted that one of the "Demoiselles d'Avignon" was modeled on her. In April 1907 Olivier went to a local orphanage and adopted a 13-year-old girl, Raymonde. The small family did not last, however, and upon discovering explicit drawings of Raymonde made by Picasso, Olivier sent the girl back to the orphanage. Olivier made no mention of Raymonde in her memoirs. When Picasso finally achieved success as an artist,
Joseph H. Davis (painter) (e.g. musical instruments, inkwells, books, etc.) used to characterize the personalities portrayed, suggesting their professions and showing off their life styles. He is "best known for his double portraits of married couples" facing each other across a table, which endows the interiority of his work with an explicitly Romantic quality. Joseph H. Davis (painter) Joseph H. Davis (active 1832–1837) was an itinerant American portrait painter. Over a period of only five years, from 1832–37, the itinerant artist Joseph H. Davis painted about 150 watercolor portraits of residents of Maine and New Hampshire. The body of work he left behind is