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Bribes de corps #296

1973–74
Not on view
Following her move from Beirut to Paris in 1970, Caland began a series of paintings she called Bribes de corps, or "body parts." At first glance, these lushly colored works appear abstract. This initial impression soon gives way to a recognition of curved thighs and buttocks and swelling breasts and stomachs: an erotic landscape of the flesh. Like other works in the series, Bribes de corps #296 places a woman’s body at the center of a larger discourse around abstraction and, more specifically, Color Field painting, a mode historically dominated by men but whose American pioneer, Helen Frankenthaler (1928– 2011), was a woman.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bribes de corps #296
  • Artist: Huguette Caland (Lebanese, 1931–2019)
  • Date: 1973–74
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 59 1/4 x 59 1/8 in. (150.5 x 150.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Art Jameel Fund, 2020
  • Object Number: 2020.319
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Huguette Caland Estate
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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