The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in October and November 1932 and published in 1933. It employs the form of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, Stein
Alice B. Toklas, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949
"... remarks are not literature"
Fernande Olivier
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Fernande Olivier was a French artist and model known primarily for having been the model and first muse of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him. Picasso pai
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
…Hélène, Gertrude's housemaid, in their household in Paris. She mentions preparations for an art exhibition. She discusses Pablo Picasso and his mistress Fernande Olivier. Picasso and Fernande end their relationship, and Fernande moves to Montparnasse to teach French. Alice and Gertrude visit her there. Alice tells of…
Fernande Olivier, photographed by Pablo Picasso in 1906
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
Pablo Picasso, 1909–10, Head of a Woman (Fernande), modeled on Fernande Olivier