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and his wife Maria do Carmo
Ferreira da Silva Carmona, Menez had a cosmopolitan childhood, having lived in Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Paris, Switzerland, Rome, following her father’s diplomatic appointments, and in Washington, D.C., with her husband. She returned to Portugal in 1951.
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Menez never attended art school. She only started painting regularly at the age of 26, as a self-taught artist. Her first exhibition was at
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