Fernande Olivier Fernande Olivier Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 26 January 1966) was a 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. Olivier was born of an out-of-wedlock relationship between her mother and a married man. She was raised by an aunt and uncle, who attempted to arrange a marriage for her. Instead, Olivier ran away and married a man who abused her. In 1900, when she was 19 years old, she left her
Fernande Keufgens it to me." After the war, she married an American soldier, Bill Davis. The two moved to the United States, where Keufgens became a university professor in French. In 2008, Keufgens wrote her memoir called "Girl in the Belgian Resistance." She continues to lecture about her wartime resistance work. Fernande Keufgens Fernande Keufgens (also known as Fernande Davis) was a Belgian resistance fighter with the during the Second World War. Fernande Keufgens was one of eight children in a close-knit family; she was sixteen years old when the Germans invaded Belgium. Before World War II began, Keufgens's father—who witnessed the