Born in Stockholm,Greta Knutson was a Swedish surrealist painter, art critic, poet, and writer. She was born to an affluent family in 1899 and was fluent in several foreign languages.[1] She attended the Carl Wilhelmson Academy of Fine Arts for one year,[1] then studied at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan, and settled in Paris, France during the early 1920s.[2] It was there that she began frequenting Andre Lhote's studio and became his disciple.[2] When she moved to Paris her stay became permanent and she would only ever return to Sweden occasionally.