Bohemian Lives: Three Extraordinary Women: Ida Nettleship, Sophie Brzeska and Fernande Olivier

by Amy Licence

Book Overview

Ida Nettleship was a flamboyant Bohemian who gave up a promising artistic career to marry Augustus John. She had five pregnancies in just six years, lived with Augustus and his mistress in a m nage trois, and died exhausted in childbirth aged thirty. Ida's story of unconventional love is equalled by two other Bohemian women of the same era: Picasso's first love Fernande Olivier, who was prominent in the Paris art scene, and the writer Sophie Brzeska,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445694409
• ISBN13: 9781445694405
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"