Soshana struggled financially as a full-time artist in Paris. She described it as a "bittersweet time." She became acquainted with the artists Kupka, Auguste Herbin, Ossip Zadkine, César, Pignon, Bazaine, Max Ernst, Yves Klein, Alexander Calder, Wifredo Lam, Sam Francis, Jean-Paul Sartre, Affandi, Lain Bangdel, and Marc Chagall.[9] She considered Alberto Giacometti one of her best friends.[11] In 1953, Soshana met the Zurich gallery owner Max G. Bollag, who became a major promoter of her work.[5]