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,
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