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Chronology
- 1919 : Born on July 9, 1919 in Bogotá.
- '1947 ' : he wins a scholarship that allows him to travel to Paris to study at the academy of the French artist André Lothe.
- '1949 ' : Presents his first individual exhibition at the Kléber Gallery in Paris. That same year she was hired by UNESCO to illustrate The Soil Primer.
- '1950 ' : she receives a commission from UNESCO to illustrate the History of Literacy books, belonging to the Popular Library of Latin America.
- '1951 ' : she is appointed by UNESCO as a delegate to the Inter-American Congress in Mexico City.
- '1952 ' : she travels to Mexico, where she participates in the exhibitions of the Revolutionary Painters of Mexico and works at the same time in the studio of the painter Diego Rivera.
- '1957 ' : she is invited by the Cultural Institute of Latin America in Israel. She lives in Haifa in the Artists' Village.
- '1960 ' : she returns to Europe. She first went to work in Italy and, two years later, she settled permanently in France.
- '2003 ' : she passed away on July 12 in Bordeaux, France.
