She was born Shirley Sternstein in New Jersey in 1923 and went to Paris as Mrs. Jaffe in 1949. Although her marriage to the journalist Irving Jaffe did not last long, the painter nevertheless remained in France. She quickly made friends and met regularly with the American "art expats" Norman Bluhm, Sam Francis and Joan Mitchell, who came to Paris a little later.
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