Born in the coastal village of Sahel Alma, Labibé Zoghbé, known as Bibi, emigrated to Argentina at the age of sixteen. His 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 at the Museum of Beirut. Bibi Zoghbé, who particularly loved to paint flowers, had well deserved his title of “El Paintora des Flores” the painter of flowers. Zoghbé painted dozens of their varieties in Argentina and Lebanon: roses, bougainvilleas, chrysanthemums, but also Mediterranean pines, apple orchards and cherry blossoms: blossoms as well as constellations of buds. Without claiming to give lessons in botany or offer photographic reproductions of flowers, Zoghbé takes the liberty of translating the details of his subjects into a stylized and almost naive vocabulary. She paints bouquets or wild flowers,
Zoghbé makes his vegetal representations vibrate on monochrome backgrounds. Like his immortal heroines, they became characters with human qualities, flaws and emotions - aggressive pines and black branches, cold white cherry trees, soft rounded green leaves and pronounced pink.