Suzanne Blier
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376 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Suzanne Blier’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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About that, yeah.
And she was tall.
She was beautiful, but a large woman, right, and towering and this amazing head of hair, red hair.
She had an enormous wit.
She'd been a model, and that's where a lot of –
men artists found their relationship.
She had been a model.
She had had sexual relations for hire.
She had enormous, she's super smart, really an intellectual.
And when he is painting his famous portrait of Gertrude Stein and calling her back to sit for him for days and months, et cetera, Fernand would regale
Gertrude Stein with these various stories and the fables, French fables, etc.
I'm sure he took all of that in.
He loved smart people.
I think his best artworks, his best art periods are when he's around both men and women who are super smart.
But this is also a time when they're living in the Bateau Lavoie, which is in Montmartre on a hill.
It's a small studio, lots of other artist studios, a lot of noise.
He just wants to work.
And she's pretty demanding, you know, and they don't have much money.
Occasionally they would go out to this...
the where they would get some dinner, but they went for a fair amount of time without food.
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