Olivia De Berardinis. Born in 1948 - Artist Olivia de Bernardis Professionally known as Olivia. After high school she attended the New York School of Visual Arts and became involved in the minimalist art movement, painting minimalist oils on canvas. Olivia began to draw and paint pictures of beautiful women in the mid-1970's and, in a short time, was very successful with painting erotic fantasies for popular men's magazines. In 1977 Olivia De Bernardi and her future husband formed the O Card Company, Inc. to publish her work in the form of greeting cards. Olivia signed her first fine art publishing agreement in 1984 and had her first one-woman gallery show in Los Angeles three years later. Olivia has had shows throughout the United States and Japan and her work is collected worldwide. Art Brokerage has a client for erotic original paintings. We no longer accept print listings for this artist. original paintings only.