Bibi Zogbé

Bibi Zogbé (1890–1973), born Labibé Zogbé in Lebanon, was a Lebanese-born painter based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Educated at Collège de la Sainte Famille in Beirut, she became known for her oil paintings of wild flowers and plants, earning the nickname “La Pintora de Flores” — “the flower painter.” She exhibited from the 1930s onward, with shows in Buenos Aires, Paris, Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay, and spent time painting while traveling between Argentina, Lebanon, Paris, and West Africa. In 1947, she was the only woman featured in Lebanese government-sponsored publications on national artists, and later received the Lebanese Cedar Medallion of Excellence. Today, Zogbé is recognized as a pioneering Lebanese woman artist associated with Arab modernist art.