Céleste Polychroniadou-Karavia (1904-1985) was born in Athens (Greece). She studied music at the Athens Conservatory and in 1930 she went to Paris (France), at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, where she studied, inter alia, painting and sketching. She was a member of the “Art” group and organised many personal exhibitions in Greece and abroad, participating also in many group exhibitions. She was the wife of the author Panos Karavias.