After that, she became increasingly known for her illustrations of children's books and short stories by Portuguese authors.
[2][3][4] Having been stereotyped as a child painter, in the 1930s she created a range of, often scathing, caricatures of friends, imagining them as children.
In parallel with the work she did for public exhibition and sale, she also did, privately, self-portraits and erotic drawings.
In her erotic and often lesbian scenes she was transgressing the puritanical morality imposed on Portuguese women at that time by the Estado Novo dictatorship.
Her lesbian paintings were particularly evident in the exhibition Tudo O Que Eu Quero (All I want) at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon in 2021, an exhibition of the work of 40 women, which was part of the cultural program of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union in that year.