Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦"Still Life," Maria Blanchard, c. 1917.
Blanchard (1881-1932) had a sad life, partly due to a number of birth defects that left her with a severe limp and stunted her growth. Painting became a way for her to express her physical and emotional pain.
She had a unique style of Cubism that embraced the style's angularity while still remaining clear and figurative, as we see here. Her style shifted as she aged, to a more figurative look, but remaining dark and melancholy; she died young of TB, at 51.
From a private collection.
