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Huguette Caland

Also known as: Huguette Caland; primary name: Caland, Huguette
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; Lebanese; Female
Life dates: 1931-
Biography: Artist; daughter of the first Lebanese president after the independence, Bechara El Khoury. Studied at the American University of Berirut (1964 -1968) and has lived much of her life in America. Shifting between figuration and abstraction, Caland's large, colourful canvases and detailed drawings from the 1970s and 1980s offer a delicate balance between the suggestive and the explicit. After moving to Paris from Beirut in 1970, Caland achieved artistic recognition with her exuberant and erotically charged paintings that challenged traditional conventions of beauty and desire. The female physique is a recurrent motif in her work, often painted like landscapes with voids and mountain-like forms. Her work was the focus of a retrospective at Tate St Ives in 2019.
Bibliography: Huguette Caland. Works 1964-2012. (Beirut 2013)