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Paris
Encouraged by the sculptress Charlotte van Pallandt, she left for Paris in 1929 against the will of her parents, where she would spend a total of eleven years. They were years of a tight social life - her parents were very reluctant to provide financial support - and of hard work, but she also underwent the strong experience of big city life. She found friendship and collegiality there in the circle around Conrad Kickert, who visited each other every Wednesday evening; Wim Oepts, Van Pallandt, Mena Loopuyt and Gerard Hordijk, among others, came here, from whom she was soon able to temporarily rent his studio. She temporarily took lessons with André Lhote and figure drawing with Mariëtte Lydis. Decisive for her later graphic work was the discovery of the studio of Stanley William Hayter on Montparnasse, who taught her everything about etching and all kinds of new printing techniques.[2]
She published her graphics from those years in a large number of folders, the titles of which were significant for her situation and experience: 'Solitudes', 'Visions et Fantômes', 'L'amour et la mort', 'Rêves et Réalités', 'L'Opéra' and 'Les Fleurs du Mal'. They are lithographs with large-format scenes of a dim, romantic nature, sometimes with a dramatic atmosphere, which occupy a unique place in her entire oeuvre.[3] As a painter she was already starting to stand out; she exhibited in various salons in the Netherlands. These works were also partly shown in the Netherlands, partly on the recommendation of art critic Albert Plasschaert, to whom she has dedicated another series. In 1937 she won a bronze medal at the world exhibition in Paris for her painting Rural Sextet, of a group of musicians playing in a forest. During the holidays she always went back to her parents in Beetsterzwaag where she had to fight her father again and again.[2]
In Paris she often drew in the Jardin des Plantes and sketched people on the street and in the pub. She also regularly sketched in circus Medrano, at the Opera; she processed her impressions and sketches in the studio where her oeuvre grew steadily. In April and May she went to the Parc du Luxembourg or to the Paris area to paint. It was the impending war that forced her to leave Paris in the spring of 1940; she temporarily moved to the South of France, but then managed to return to the Netherlands, where she settled in De Jordaan in Amsterdam.[2]