MarÃa Blanchard
María Gutiérrez y Cueto Blanchard ( born March 6, 1881 in Santander, Cantabria, † April 15, 1932 in Paris) was a Spanish painter.
Biography
Gutiérrez Blanchard, daughter of journalist Enrique Gutierrez Cueto and Concepción Blanchard Santisteban, came with physical deformities; among other things, she was dwarfed, hunchbacked and unable to walk. She was the cousin of Germán Gutiérrez Cueto. In 1903 she went to Madrid where he studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando under Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, Manuel Benedito and Emelio Sala. In 1909 she continued her artistic education as a scholar continued at the Paris Académie Vitti Hermenegildo Anglada under Camarasa and Kees van Dongen. Here she discovered for the painting of Cubism, in particular, it was influenced by Jacques Lipchitz and Juan Gris. In 1914 she went back to Madrid and exhibited there as part of an organizational benefited from Gómez de la Serna exhibition. From 1914 to 1916 she was selected students in Salamanca drawing lessons. The end of 1916 they finally went to Paris to paint there. In 1920 she exhibited in France and Belgium. After attending an exhibition at the Salon des Independants in 1921 her paintings were in great demand, but their patrons retreated in the face of the poor economy and it was only still from the literature lover Frank Velcro ( 1878-1926 ) until his death supported financially. After she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, her sister Carmen moved with her children to her. Yet you continued to paint, was able to sell some of their pictures on the gallery director Vavin - Raspail and found again people who supported her art financially. Because of their increasingly deteriorating state of health they sought refuge in religion. Later they came again into financial difficulties and died in 1932.