Skip to main content
Items Similar to Moscow, Russia, Photograph of Dancer, Russian Ballerina, Maya Plisetskaya
Jack Mitchell - American Ballet Theatre Ballerina Toni Lander, signed by Jack Mitchell
American Ballet Theatre Ballerina Toni Lander, signed by Jack Mitchell
Jack Mitchell - Ballet Russe Dancer Yvonne Chouteau, Signed by Jack Mitchell
Ballet Russe Dancer Yvonne Chouteau, Signed by Jack Mitchell
Jack Mitchell - Royal Ballet prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn Studio Portrait
Royal Ballet prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn Studio Portrait
Jack Mitchell - Martha Graham Portrait Original Signed Vintage Photograph 1973
Martha Graham Portrait Original Signed Vintage Photograph 1973
Jack Mitchell - Sculptor Marisol (full name Maria Sol Escobar) photographed in New York City
Sculptor Marisol (full name Maria Sol Escobar) photographed in New York City
Jack Mitchell - American Ballet Theater Dancer Principal Dancer Lupe Serrano Studio Portrait
American Ballet Theater Dancer Principal Dancer Lupe Serrano Studio Portrait
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6

Roberta Fineberg
Moscow, Russia, Photograph of Dancer, Russian Ballerina, Maya Plisetskaya

1989

About the Item

Drawn to street photography, Roberta Fineberg visited Moscow for extended periods in 1989-1990, witnessing Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev's politics of "Glasnost/Perestroika" ("Openness"). The celebrated Soviet dancer and choreographer Maya Plisetskaya was living in Spain, and during Glasnost/Perestroika she returned to Moscow to appear once again on the Russian stage. Plisetskaya, 64, forever youthful and beautiful, on- and off-stage. A black-and-white photographic portrait of Maya Plisetskaya, legendary Russian ballerina in her dressing room at the Bolshoi in Moscow. This is a 14" x 11" gelatin silver photograph -- signed, matted, and framed for a public art exhibition in 2004 during the Cool New York initiative at the Empire State Building, New York City. Provenance: RF Studio *** 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.