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Roberta FinebergEmotions, Photograph Inspired by Italian Literature, Sicily, Italy2018
2018
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About the Item
A contemporary color photograph by Roberta Fineberg, the image is an homage to great Italian cinema of the 1960s, capturing French actor Alain Delon and Italian actress Claudia Cardinale in the film classic The Leopard directed by Luchino Visconti.
In the film Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (played by Burt Lancaster) allows his nephew Tancredi (Alain Delon) to marry the stunning Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), daughter to a nouveau riche family, in order to maintain the aristocratic Salina family's material comfort and political power.
The photograph reframes Delon and Cardinale within 4 quadrants, appearing in the sign of a cross, a nod to history, time, place, and religion in Sicily.
Emotions, 2018 by Roberta Fineberg is 17” x 24” is an archival pigment print on Japanese rice paper in an edition of 5. Signed, titled, dated by the artist.
Provenance: RF Studio
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Notes on The Leopard
Beginning in the 1860s the Leopard tells the story of a societal order in flux, an aristocratic way of life confronted with change, and characters who must adapt to the present for their survival and evolution. The Leopard takes place in Sicily – against a backdrop of opulence, rawness, simplicity, great beauty, expansive nature, and sunlight.
The Leopard is an epic Italian historical drama and is currently a 2025 Netflix series, too. Popular interest today in the work by di Lampedusa reminds me of the French expression: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same).
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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:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New york, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: 99Prints1stDibs: LU74632473911
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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