two woman in an interior seated at a glass table; elderly woman wearing white holds her hand to her chest and a younger woman wearing orange seated to the older woman's left holds her other hand to her face

%C2%A9 Rania Matar. All rights reserved. Courtesy of the Artist and Robert Klein Gallery.

Brigitte and Huguette, Ghazir Lebanon, 2014

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Lebanese American photographer Rania Matar’s incomparable portrait of Huguette Caland and her daughter, Brigitte, is made all the more powerful by the tenderness of their embrace and the visible tears in the younger woman’s eyes. Matar’s physical positioning of these sitters is also a tribute to them: Huguette Caland was a Lebanese artist who was renowned for her feminist abstractions of the feminine form. She passed away in the fall of 2019; this double portrait is a monument to her legacy.

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Title
Brigitte and Huguette, Ghazir Lebanon
Artist Life
born 1964
Role
Photographer
Accession Number
2019.100.1
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two woman in an interior seated at a glass table; elderly woman wearing white holds her hand to her chest and a younger woman wearing orange seated to the older woman's left holds her other hand to her face

© Rania Matar. All rights reserved. Courtesy of the Artist and Robert Klein Gallery.

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