2022Women in Art - Maria Blanchard - First Day Cover

Maria Blanchard, the pioneer of cubism and other avant-garde movements, was born in Santander in 1881, with a serious back deformity, a kyphoscoliosis that made her say: I would trade my whole life for a little beauty. However, even before settling in Paris in 1909, with the scholarships he had won for his talent, he had already given signs that everything that would pass through his hands would be beauty, color and soul without restrictions, without academic limits or imposed rules.