Huguette CALAND (1931-2019) - Lot 109

Huguette CALAND (1931-2019) Bodily landscape Oil on canvas, signed lower right. 27 x 35 cm Huguette Caland, born El Khoury, is an artist of Lebanese origin born in 1931 and died at the age of 88 years in 2019. 2019. Born into a family of politicians whose father became in 1943 after the independence of Lebanon the first president, she was introduced to painting as a teenager by the side of Fernando Manetti, Italian artist. It is then in she joined the American University of Beirut to study fine arts Beirut to study fine arts. In 1970, tired of being of being considered as the "daughter of", "wife of" and "mother of and the "mother of" and due to lack of success in her native country, she she moved to Paris to work as an artist. At the end of the 1960s, she began her series of large-scale large-scale works offer abstract representations of the of the female body without ever revealing it. Caland paints large colored landscapes using the negative space of the canvas and the drawing of lines to represent female forms and and curves similar to hills and valleys. Inspired by bodyscapes, the artist erotic desire and questions the traditional conventions of of sexuality and beauty. Our painting is part of this lineage.