 After reading some of his books she exclaimed, “I was just astonished, it was not the surrealism that interested me.It was what Breton was saying, because he was sayings things that affected me, exactly what I was thinking, and I had no doubt that we were going to meet one way or another.” (Grimberg, p6)

In 1925, she entered the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs from which she graduated in 1929.Here, she met fellow female surrealist Dora Maar, who later stated