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Still Life
María Blanchard (Spanish, 1881–1932)
c. 1916
- Medium
- oil, sand, and mixed media collage on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 65.8 x 52.4 cm (25 7/8 x 20 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- France, Paris
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Partial purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and partial gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Saltzman, by exchange
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The Spanish artist María Blanchard worked in Paris as a Cubist between 1916 and 1919. In Still Life, she portrayed multiple, simultaneous viewpoints in an abstract style based on geometry and flat planes. Although other Cubists used collage elements in their work, Blanchard was unique in her use of three-dimensional elements to create an image that fluctuates between the concrete and the illusionary. During her lifetime, Blanchard was celebrated by her fellow Cubists, and she shared studios with Juan Gris and Diego Riviera, the latter of whom described her as producing Cubism’s “finest works, apart from our master, Picasso.”
