Menez or Maria Inês Ribeiro da Fonseca, GOSE (9 September 1926, in Lisbon – 11 April 1995)[1] was a Portuguese painter.
Her major body of work consists of paintings and drawings but she also produced ceramics, engravings, silk-screen prints and tapestries.
The maternal granddaughter of former Portuguese president General Óscar Carmona 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.
After her death, she continues to be widely exhibited, most recently in 2022 at the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego in Cascais, Portugal.
[3][4][5] Menez married Rui Burnay Morales de Los Rios da Silva Leitão, with whom she had two sons and a daughter before divorcing.