“Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête” looks at an artist who is also the daughter of one of Lebanon's most famous politicians. Installation view of “Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête” at the Drawing Center. Photo ...

As is so often the case with 20th-century artists who happen to be women, the Lebanese artist and fashion designer Huguette Caland wasn’t recognized until the late stages of her career—only several ...

Divided into geographical chapters, Faces and Places catalogs the artist’s desire for constant change, be it physical or ideological. In the Beirut of the 1960s, an era often labeled in the fraught ...

About the Artist: Born in 1931, Huguette Caland was the daughter of Bechara Khalil El Khoury, the first president of Lebanon post-independence. A comparative latecomer to practicing art, following the ...

Feminine bodies anchor the buoyant exhibition, Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête, now on view at the Drawing Center. Though for the artist, finding such joy in the bodacious and the feminine was hard-won.

Huguette Caland, the late Lebanese artist known for her buoyant abstractions of body parts, had to wait until she was 33 years old to act on her desire to be a painter. Born in Beirut in 1931 to a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like so many women before her, Caland achieved recognition only in old age and landed her first big American ...

Huguette Caland was a Lebanese artist known for her painting, sculpture, and fashion design, particularly her erotic abstract paintings and body landscapes. Born in 1931 in Beirut, Lebanon, she ...

Huguette Caland was a libertine. Her art was about prolonging life’s pleasures. “I love every minute of my life,” said the artist who made this painting. “I squeeze it like an orange and eat the peel, ...

In 2012, the Lebanese artist Huguette Caland took part in a group show called “Le corps découvert,” at the Institut du Monde Arabe, in Paris. One of her paintings (“Self Portrait,” from 1973), a petal ...

She left her husband and children in Beirut to flex her artistic muscles in Paris. Her desire to live without restrictions was her defining theme. By Katharine Q. Seelye Huguette Caland, a provocative ...