Fernande Olivier was a French model and artist, known primarily for being Picasso’s first couple. Now, the Picasso Museum claims it as the chronicler of the birth of cubism which was thanks to the memories he left written. The exhibition illustrates Olivier’s life in chronological order so that we know it and locate it in a place and a key moment for the outbreak of the avant-garde. Unpublished documents and photographsaudiovisual testimonies and various portraits signed by Fernande Olivier’s circle of friends are the main works that make up this unique exhibition.
The second room of the exhibition is dedicated entirely to the relationship between Olivier and Picasso with a compilation of her texts and an artistic exhibition of his, with the paintings and sculptures that Picasso created and produced from 1905 until after 1910, when he was living with Fernande. There are oil paintings and sculpted busts depicting Fernande Olivier.
Structured by the writings and documents that Olivier prepared and compiled throughout his life shared with Pablo Picasso, the exhibition curated by Malén Gual also allows us to learn about the artists who lived or passed through the Bateau-Lavoir, emblem and house of avant-gardesuch as Kees van Dongen, Joaquín Sunyer, Ubaldo Oppi, Ricardo Canales, Henri Rousseau, Manolo Hugué or Paco Durrio.
