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Argentina, she focused often on colorful plant life native to Lebanon. She also traveled to West Africa. In addition, Zogbé painted a few figurative paintings such as “Bahias,” showing a mother carrying her son, and “Femme aux Fleurs,” a portrait which pictures a woman surrounded by flowers. The time she spent in Dakar inspired paintings such as “A Village in Senegal.” Zogbé's modernist style contrasted with classical and European styles, and may have reflected the fact her art education was largely self-taught. The art auction house Christies described her style as "
143:. Zogbé drew inspiration from these styles in her oil paintings. She returned to Beirut for an extended stay in 1947, during which time the Lebanese government sponsored articles on three artists including Zogbé, and gained success in the local market. During this period, her art featured in a solo show at the Cénacle Libanais, an esteemed literary salon attended by prominent Lebanese intellectuals.
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woman artist and painter in the Arab modernist style, with her works prized for their vivid colors and for their "double meanings" or symbolism. In 2022, the Beirut gallery, Galerie Tanit, hosted a new exhibit of her art, while in recent years museums in
Lebanon have also put her work on display. Zogbé has also inspired other artists, such as Swiss-born Lebanese fashion designer
103:. Her father became the ambassador of Lebanon in Argentina, which had welcomed a small but significant population of migrants of Lebanese origin from 1887 onwards. While growing up in Lebanon, Zogbé attended a local Catholic school and later the Sainte Famille College in Beirut, where she received a French education.
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In 1947, Lebanon funded publications about three national artists, and Zogbé was the only woman featured. Later that year, she was awarded the
Lebanese Cedar Medallion of Excellence for her artistic efforts. In the twenty-first century, Zogbé began to receive more recognition as a pioneering Lebanese
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Zogbé, who painted in the medium of oil, became known in some circles as “La
Pintura de Flores,” meaning “the flower painter,” because she so often depicted wild flowers and plants, including cacti, chrysanthemums, hydrangeas, and on at least one occasion, a Japanese apple tree. Although she produced
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As an adult, Zogbé settled permanently in Buenos Aires. By this time, Argentina hosted a substantial population of people
Lebanese origin – a population that numbered 148,270 people in 1926. Members of this community developed a distinct Lebanese-Argentine cultural identity, even while many retained,
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Lebanon for a marriage that her parents had arranged for her in Argentina. She married Domingo Samaja, a wealthy Lebanese-Argentinian immigrant. She legally divorced him in the early 1930s and never remarried. Though the marriage did not last, she
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