After leaving her birthplace of Santiago, Cuba, she spent some time in New York with her two children, Yasfaro and Domingo, to work as a model, where she met Montenegrin artist Dado (né Miodrag Đurić), three years her senior, and a protégé of French artist Jean Dubuffet.
Carmen and Dado fell in love and married.
The couple returned together to France and set up home in a converted mill in a small village outside of Paris.
and settled with him in rural Normandy in 1962.
Together they raised five children.

She did not attend any art school and developed her own creative technique as early as 1956 with materials that were both affordable and easily available.
Fabrics and textile cuts were materials she used from the beginning.
After leaving her birthplace of Santiago, Cuba, she spent some time in New York with her two children, Yasfaro and Domingo, to work as a model, where she met Montenegrin artist Dado (né Miodrag Đurić), three years her senior, and a protégé of French artist Jean Dubuffet. Carmen and Dado fell in love and married. The couple returned together to France and set up home in a converted mill in a small village outside of Paris. and settled with him in rural Normandy in 1962. Together they raised five children.
She did not attend any art school and developed her own creative technique as early as 1956 with materials that were both affordable and easily available. Fabrics and textile cuts were materials she used from the beginning.
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