[1] In Paris, Janacopulos studied sculpture with Léo Laporte-Blairsy, Raoul Larche and Antoine Bourdelle and befriended Amedeo Modigliani, Jacques Lipchitz and artists from the Russian colony.

She sculpted the tomb of the poet Felipe d'Oliveira in 1933 and in 1935 made three monuments in honor of the dead of the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 for the faculties of law, medicine and engineering of the University of São Paulo.

[2] In 1938 Janacópulos received a commission from the Ministry of Education and Health, to sculpt a work for the Gustavo Capanema Palace.

After the death of Vera in 1955, Adriana honored her sister with a bust, inaugurated in 1958 in Paris Square, in Rio de Janeiro.

[2] Content in this edit is translated from the existing Portuguese Wikipedia article at pt:Adriana Janacópulos; see its history for attribution.