Fernande Olivier husband without a formal divorce and moved to Paris. She changed her name so that her husband could not find her. Olivier quickly found work modeling for artists; she was a fixture in the circle of friends of writer Guillaume Apollinaire, where she also became friends with Paul Léautaud, Kees van Dongen and Edmond-Marie Poullain. Van Dongen in particular painted her several times. She met Picasso at the Bateau-Lavoir in 1904, and by the next year they were living together. Their relationship lasted seven years and was characterized by its tempestuousness. Both Olivier and Picasso were jealous lovers, and their
Samuel Rosenberg (artist) became known as the Irene Kaufmann Settlement. Rosenberg also took art lessons from Jacob R. Coblens, who was an artist from Paris, but working in Pittsburgh. During those lessons, Rosenberg learned to draw from memory. Samuel Rosenberg spent one year at the National Academy of Design in New York, and then he came back to live in Pittsburgh. When the World War I started, he did a tour of duty in the U.S. Army. Samuel Rosenberg started his career by painting portraits. He painted a Self-Portrait in 1919, which showed he was a confident young artist and his use of