The cliche about the struggling and suffering artist certainly applies to Maria Blanchard. She was a contemporary of Picasso and one would think that with a little luck she might have become more successful in her own time, and more well known now. But life is cruel. And it was cruel to this artist.
She needs a film of her life – does not have to be Hollywood! She to be played by Penelope Cruz or Elena Anaya or…
Apparently she was not very attractive, physically. But her life would make an interesting film as long as it didn’t get too maudlin.