Bibi ZOGBE (Liban, 1890 -1973) Lot n° 48

Ramo Oil on canvas 73.5 x 60 cm painted in 1958 signed lower right "Bibi Zogbé", titled and signed "Ramo por Bibi ZOGBE Born in the coastal village of Sahel Alma in Lebanon, Labibé Zoghbé, known as Bibi, emigrated to Argentina at the age of sixteen. Her career as an artist began in the 1930s, with exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, Chile and Uruguay. At the end of the Second World War, she lived between Paris and Dakar, from where she left for Lebanon in 1947. She exhibited that year at the Lebanese Cenacle and the Beirut Museum. Bibi Zoghbé who particularly liked to paint flowers had well deserved her title of "El peintora des flores". The poet Charles Corm wrote about her: "All the flowers of the world smile at us for a day and then leave, but her flowers will never perish because she put the incandescence of her heart into them".