Neil Folberg Impressionists Color Photo Hand Signed Pigment Print Photograph

Dimensions: H: 17.0, W: 13.5 IN

Neil Folberg (b. 1950) Travels with Van Gogh and the Impressionists, Lin Arison and Neil Folberg Pigment print on rag paper Ultrachrome K3 inks on Crane Museo Silver Rag archival fine art paper Hand waxed using Renaissance wax.

2001-2003,

Hand signed, titled, dated and inscribed verso (the edition was 40 plus 10 artist's proofs plus 6 H.C.)

17 x 13 1/2 in. (sheet), unframed.

Vincent's Chair, Auberge Ravoux, Auvers-sur-Oise, 2002; After Vincent Van Gogh

Provenance: The Abrams Family Collection. Harry N. Abrams and his son Robert amassed a collection of fine art and illustrated books from an industry they pioneered. Isamu Noguchi, Alex Katz, Bob Thompson, Marisol, Chryssa, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indiana, Fernando Botero, Marisol, John Wesley, Kenneth Noland, Christo, Lee Bontecou, Dan Christensen, Arman and more were included. The collection charts a remarkable and fearless story of contemporary art: there were no aesthetic boundaries to their collecting in terms of abstraction versus figuration, gender, racial or nationalistic guidelines—instead, the supreme unifying factor above all was quality.

A former student of the American landscape photographer Ansel Adams, Neil Folberg is known for his color landscapes of the Middle East and black-and-white techniques that champion the wizardry of his master teacher. Born in San Francisco, Folberg became a pupil of Adams at age 17, followed by his education at the University of California at Berkeley and individualized study with landscape photographer William Garnett. By 1976, Folberg had relocated to Jerusalem, where he began producing color landscapes throughout the deserts of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. Folberg was commissioned by Aperture to document synagogue interiors across the world, followed by a return to black-and-white in a series of night skies among ancient ruins of the Middle East.

He used that same lighting to evoke the colors and light of the French Impressionists in his innovative re-creation of their world (“Travels with Van Gogh and the Impressionists”, Abbeville Press). His current project places man on the stage of nature in brilliantly lit scenes.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Celestial Nights, The Dryansky Gallery, San Francisco 2012 Topography/Time/Israel, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York 2008 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Yeshiva University Museum, New York

2007 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Hammond Art Gallery, Fitchburg, MA

Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Miller Jewish Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX 2006 The Impressionists' Salon, Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Gershman Y Galleries, The Borowsky and Open Lens Galleries, Philadelphia, PA 2005 Galerie Zéro l'infini, Kunst 05, Zurich

Manet, Morisot and Friends, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York

Celestial Nights, Pikto Gallery, Toronto 2004 Galerie Zéro l'infini, Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

Prochaine Station Cosmos, Hotel de Sponeck, L'Allan scéne nationale par le19, centre régional d'art contemporain, Montbéliard, France

Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, The Skirball Museum, Los Angeles 2003 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Celestial Nights: Ra’anana Municipal Art Gallery, Israel 2002 Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, the Groningen Nature Museum, in co-operation with Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, Holland

Celestial Nights, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, N.Y.

Celestial Nights: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, La Galerie Photographies du Montpellier, France

Celestial Nights, Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, New York 2001 Celestial Nights, Vision Gallery, Jerusalem 2000 Celestial Nights, Galerie Mistral, Montreal

And I Shall Dwell Among Them: An Aperture Traveling Exhibition, Galerie Fiolet, Winterswijk, Holland

Celestial Nights, Fine Gallery, Atlanta JCC, Atlanta

Celestial Nights, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco

Celestial Nights, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris Canadian Centre for Architecture, Toronto Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ. Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y. Israel Museum, Jerusalem Los Angeles County Museum of Art Ludwig Museum, Cologne Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg Museum of Art, St. Louis, Mo. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego Musée Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City Philadelphia Museum of Art, Michael Hoffman Collection Preus Fotomuseum, Horten, Norway San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Jose Museum of Art Smart Museum of Art, Chicago Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Tel-Aviv Museum Yale University Museum of Art