Huguette Caland, a provocative Lebanese artist who celebrated freedom of expression in both her color-drenched paintings and her unconventional life, died on Sept. 23 at her home in Beirut. She was 88.

Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Brigitte Caland. Her mother, she said, had experienced neurological problems since a fall in 2006 and by 2013 had lost her ability to paint.

As an artist, Ms. Caland moved freely among oils, ink, sculptures and textiles, between representational figures, abstractions and line drawings. Her pieces were voluptuous, organic, whimsical, erotic, exuberant, sometimes cartoonlike, but most often decidedly feminist.

Perhaps her most famous work was “Bribes de Corps” (“Body Parts”), a series of paintings, begun in the 1970s, showing fleshy, curvaceous forms that resemble parts of the female anatomy. “They are abstract and sensuous,” wrote The National, an English-language newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, “like a celebration of the plumpness of life.”