Fernande Barrey
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Fernande Barrey | ||
Fernande Barrey circa 1915 | ||
Background information | ||
Born | Jan 09, 1893 Saint-Valery-sur-Somme | |
Died | Jul 17, 1960 - age 66 Paris, France | |
Occupation: | Artist model Painter | |
Nationality: | French |
Fernande Barrey (✦9 January 1893 in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme – †14 July 1960 in Paris) was a French artist model and painter.
Biography
Fernande Barrey left her native Picardy in about 1908 and moved to Paris, where she survived as a child prostitute. She then became the model for many painters, including Amedeo Modigliani and Chaïm Soutine ↗, who persuaded her to study painting and art history at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
In March 1917, she met the Japanese artist Tsuguharu Foujita at the Café de la Rotonde in Montparnasse, who fell madly in love with her and married her thirteen days later. In 1918 the couple moved to Cagnes-sur-Mer to escape the German bombs, where she spent a year painting
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