Maria Gutierrez Blanchard (Spanish, 1881-1932) María Blanchard was born in Santander in Cantabria to Enrique Gutiérrez Cueto, the director of the newspaper El Atlántico (The Atlantic). Marías mother had an accident during her pregnancy that meant María was born with severe disabilities such as a deformation of the spine. As a result, María Blanchard had a hunchback and found it very difficult to walk. She was teased heavily at school which left her with many emotional scars. However María Blanchard found her painting to be a great way of escaping her troubles and expressing how she felt. In 1903 she moved to Madrid and studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando with Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, Manuel Benedito and Emelio Sala. In 1909 she continued her artistic education at the Academie Vitti in Paris under Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa and Kees van Dongen.[1] Here she discovered cubist painting, and was influenced by Jacques Lipchitz and Juan Gris.[1] In 1914 she returned to Madrid where she had an exhibition organized by Ramón Gómez de la Serna. In late 1916 she finally went to Paris to paint there. In 1920, she exhibited in France and Belgium. After her exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants in 1921, her paintings were in great demand. Due to the adverse economic situation which followed, the collectors withdrew and she was financially supported by the literature enthusiast Frank Flausch (1878–1926) until her death.
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