Description
Bibi Zogbé was born as Labibé Zogbé near the Lebanese seaside in Sahel Alma and emigrated in her teenage years to Argentina in 1906. Her surname, “La Pintora de las Flores” comes from a portrait of her by Tamara de Lempicka, her artist friend from her stay in Paris in the early ‘20s. Bibi Zogbé was an artist who took private art classes but never received any formal academic education. She had various solo exhibitions at galleries in Buenos Aires, Chile, Brazil, Paris and Uruguay. Flowers in bouquets are her dominant subject, which she apparently sourced from her own garden. The painting currently on sale dates from the artist’s later years. It shows a radiant and fresh detail from her “Garden of Eden” as she called her garden. The colourful flower heads are beautifully arranged in front of a yellowish background creating a warm atmosphere that radiates from the painting.
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Technical Details
Executed in: 1967
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 75 x 55 cm
