Fernande Olivier he began to lose interest in Fernande, as she reminded him of more difficult times. Eventually they separated in 1912, leaving Olivier without a way to carry on living in the style to which she had become accustomed. She had no legal right to expect anything from the painter, since she was still technically married to her first husband. To survive, she took various odd jobs, from a cashier at a butcher's to an antiques saleswoman. She also supplemented her income by giving drawing lessons. Twenty years after her relationship with Picasso, she wrote memoirs of their life together. By
Claire Bertrand (painter) Claire Bertrand (painter) Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz, also known as Claire Bertrand was a French expressionist Artist, born in Sèvres (now in the Hauts-de-Seine) in 1890, and died in 1969. She was the wife of the painter Willy Eisenschitz, also a French painter and draftsman. As a painter of the expressionist school, Claire Bertrand focused mainly landscapes and portraits, which reduces the grounds to basics. She mainly exhibited her works in Paris and in the south of france. Born in 1890 in Sèvres (Seine-et-Oise, now in the Hauts-de-Seine), Claire Bertrand is the daughter of Marcel Bertrand geologist and Mathilde Mascart, a talented