[2] Olivier quickly found work modeling for artists and was known in Montmartre as "La Belle Fernande".

Olivier wrote in her diary, "Picasso, due to a sort of morbid jealousy, kept me as a recluse.

[7] In the spring and summer of 1906, following some sales of artwork, the couple were able to finance a trip to Barcelona and to the remote village of Gósol in the Spanish Pyrenees.

[13][14] 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.

[15] The couple briefly stayed in Barcelona and then in 1909 spent the summer in Horta de Sant Joan, where Olivier learned some Catalan.

[2] When Picasso finally achieved success as an artist, he began to lose interest in Fernande, as she reminded him of more difficult times.

By that time, Picasso was the most famous artist of the age and the publication of Olivier's memoirs carried commercial potential.

[2] In 1956, when Olivier had become deaf and was suffering from arthritis, she persuaded Picasso to pay her a small pension in exchange for her promise not to publish anything further about their relationship as long as either of them was alive.