Fernande Barrey
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
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
Chat rooms • What links here • Copyright info • Contact information • Category:Root
}