She was born the 10th of April 1901 in Central America, in Armenia a small town of El Salvador. Her father was a soldier, and the family owned a coffee plantation. She studied art at San Francisco, at Mexico University, and at San Francisco Art School. In the twenties, she settled in Paris to study French. In 1924 the painter Van Dogen introduced her to her future husband Enrique Gomez Carillo, writer, press correspondent and Argentinean Republic Consul in France who had among his good friends, the Salvadorean caricaturist Tonio Salazare, the Nicaraguan writer Ruben Dario, Manueicie Naeterliula, Gabriel D'Amnunzio and Paul Verlaine.

Two years after Gomez Cariello's death in 1927, she left for Argentina with a group of French writers invited by the president Monsieur Irigoyen.

In 1929, in the lounges of the "Alliance Française", Benjamin Crémieux introduced her to Antoine de Saint Exupéry the director of the Argentinian Aero postal company who was immediately charmed by her burning personality. Back in France the couple got married on April 22nd 1931 in Nice, in the town hall and at church in Agay on April 23rd 1931.

In spite of the tumultuous life she had with her husband aviator, she tied friendly relations with a group of surrealist painters: Marcel Duchamp, Oscar Dominguez, Balthus, André Breton, André Derain; they greatly influenced her paintings.

During the last world war, and with the assent of her husband, she took refuge in Oppede in the Luberon with a group of Art School students, while Saint Exupéry left for New-York. This group leaded by the future great architect Bernard Zehrfuss, organized a resistance network, while carrying on architectural projects for the future...

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