 She loved the great old masters, but it was the modernists, particularly Lovis Corinth, who stimulated her profoundly.She practiced the use of light and shadow in the development, on a two-dimensional surface, of forms in a three dimensional space.Diane Armitage, freelance writer and digital video artist, wrote about one of the artist's self-portraits, "Lefranc appears to have ‘come into her own’ early on when faced with the prospect of confronting a ‘persona’…by the way of realist techniques which slid into abstraction…she was able to incorporate some of the ‘isms’ of the day."