“How our group is dwindling, our first fighting and heroic group, how few of us are left.” As the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro reported in a letter written to his mother, this was a lament Picasso uttered at María Blanchard’s funeral in 1932. The two painters were born in Spain in the same year. It is not clear whether they ever met, but surely their paths crossed in the art capital that Paris was during the first third of the 1900s, where the artist from Santander was part of Cubist circles. But because she was a woman and had various disabilities, including a deformed spine that tormented her throughout her life, Blanchard stayed in a discreet background, and there independently pursued her creative impulses, which led her toward a volumetric realism replete with haggard women and despondent children. On view through 29 September at the Museo Picasso of Málaga is an exhibition that reveals an exceptional trajectory beyond the avant-garde context, claiming the limelight for an oeuvre that has yet to come out of the shadows of history.