She was born in Buenos Aires on April 22, 1902 and died in the same city on June 10, 1988. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts as a drawing teacher in 1922.
She comes into contact with the group of painters and sculptors based in Paris, later known as The Paris Group.
In 1936 she married Alfredo Bigatti, whom she had met in Buenos Aires and frequented in Europe.
In her extensive career, she held numerous personal and collective exhibitions both in our country and abroad. Her works appear in the most important museums in Argentina and abroad (USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Uruguay, etc.).
A member of the Royal Society of Arts of England, she received important awards including the Gold Medal at the International Exhibition, Paris 1937; the First National Prize for Painting at the National Hall, Buenos Aires, 1942; the Palanza Prize, Buenos Aires 1947; the Grand Prize of Honor at the National Hall, Buenos Aires, 1956; the Grand Prize of Honor at the IKA American Art Biennial, Córdoba, 1962; the Juan B. Castagnino Foundation Award, Rosario, 1979 and she was awarded by the National Fund for the Arts in 1987. In 1982 she created the Forner-Bigatti Foundation.
It is difficult to place her work within a certain trend. From a first position referring to social issues, she created her own imaginary, until leading to a symbolic expressionism centered on an original mythology of space.