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
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