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Roberta FinebergParis, France, Madeleine de Proust, Contemporary Photography2021
2021
$2,200
£1,666.30
€1,913.68
CA$3,082.92
A$3,351.76
CHF 1,777.10
MX$40,179.04
NOK 22,586.08
SEK 20,691.92
DKK 14,302.36
About the Item
Madeleine de Proust (Proust's Madeleine), Paris 2021 by Roberta Fineberg is a contemporary photography panorama on cotton rag paper (archival pigment print). The art is 20.5" x 26.5" with a window mat. Signed, dated, titled on recto (front of photo) by the artist. Edition of 3, 1 a/p
A photograph of a Parisian garden is reimagined with repeating geometric patterns and textures to mimic an optical illusion. The symmetry and contrast between the sepia-tinted and black-and-white images reveal perhaps a poetic divide between past and present, old and new, ephemeral and enduring.
For the artist the two inverted quadriptychs evoke memories of smells, tastes, sounds, and sensations of “things past.” Beginning with a "distressed" sepia-toned photograph of the Palais Royale shot in 1990 by the photographer, she juxtaposes in scanning the original black and white photograph with a scanned version of the distressed photograph for a conceptual trompe l'oeil. The coloration reminiscent of 19th century photography becomes a contemporary repurposed variation on up-cycling.
Provenance: RF Studio
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Artist's Bio:
As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, the development of ideas and color fields for her mixed media works. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter.
RF’s selected exhibitions: Women of Spirit Zurcher Gallery New York (2025); Sojourner Gallery New York (2022); Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022); CADAF online art fair (2020); Gallery122 New York pop-up group show (2018); Curate NY online group show (2013); Paris Photo: Photos, Femmes, Feminisme group show (2010); and private and public collections, including portraits of women writers at the Bibliothèque Nationale and Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris, France. Additionally in 2022, RF’s photographic work Double Helix was part of and exhibited at Sotheby’s preview show for the summer auction Contemporary Discoveries in New York City.
Recent creative projects, in 2023 RF conceived in the public space an interactive installation which spun from the ceiling, works on paper that she made
on the theme of women and the female body. From 2020-2023, RF was awarded 15 laurels from independent film festivals worldwide for her experimental smartphone video made during the pandemic, You Will Never Beat New York (2020).
Artist Backstory:
RF started out as an editorial photographer while studying French in Paris in the mid-1980s. From France she contributed photography and writing to publications, including a column in The Saturday Review. Her freelance photography has appeared in publications such as American Girl, Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies.
RF’s photographs were often selected for cover art by publishers, i.e. W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon
Schuster. In 1997 Macmillan published RF’s City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship with black-and-white photographs and text about three teenage girls who ride horses at the oldest horse stable in New York City, Claremont Riding Academy.
In 2003, Print Regional Design Annual New York awarded RF for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses, making RF an award-winning photographer.
- Creator:Roberta Fineberg (American)
- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 20.5 in (52.07 cm)Width: 26.5 in (67.31 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New york, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: 99Prints1stDibs: LU74638123002
Roberta Fineberg
Roberta Fineberg, born in Boston, is a fine-art photographer in New York City. She has focused on moody nightscapes and landscape photography and has exhibited in France, the USA and Russia, with photographs in private and public collections, including her series of portraits on women writers at the Bibliothèque Nationale and Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris.
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