Translations:Emma Reyes/8/en

In 1947 Emma Reyes participated in the international competition of the Roncori Foundation in Buenos Aires and won a scholarship to study in Paris at the academy of the artist André Lothe (Medina, 1996). This fact would definitely open the doors to a prolific artistic career at an international level. By 1949 she had already presented her first individual exhibition at the Kléber Gallery in the same city and, the following year, she was invited by the Cultural Department of UNESCO in Washington to make the illustrations for the “Popular Library of Latin America ”. She lived for two years in the American capital and from there traveled to Mexico, where she worked as an assistant to the renowned Mexican painter Diego Rivera, which allowed her to get close to and learn about, in advance, the work of the main muralists and the retrospective exhibition of Frida Khalo. in 1953.