Some artists paint their suffering. She painted her own bliss. Huguette Caland was a libertine. Her art was about prolonging life’s pleasures.

“I love every minute of my life,” said the artist who made this painting. “I squeeze it like an orange and eat the peel, because I don’t want to miss a thing.”

Have you eaten orange peel lately? It’s oily and bitter. But if Huguette Caland knew some bitterness in her life, she also had a knack for prolonging life’s sweetness.

Caland painted “Visages” in 1979. Ravishingly beautiful, it’s a square-shaped painting with 31-inch sides that was recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.