Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p6056

    p6056

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance at a place at the Danube below Budapest
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1822
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1797

    p1797

    • ARTIST: Ivan Alexandrovich Vsevolojskoy (Russia, 1835-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The idyl of the rose and the butterfly": Olga Peobrajenska
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.1 x 16.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5172

    p5172

    • TITLE OF WORK: Chinese dancers re-enact with mime and music the tales of Chinese emperors
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p1612

    p1612

    • ARTIST: Gino Severini (Italy, 1883-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer = Propeller = Sea
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 75 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • s3209

    s3209

    • ARTIST: Lehoux (drawing); Freeman (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arabian dance and costumes (Danse et costumes arabes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1837
    • COMMENTS: Accompanied by a short descriptive text
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Syria, Tripoli
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, male
    • KEYWORDS: professional, boy
  • p7814

    p7814

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler in the ballet "La tarantule"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8307

    p8307

    • ARTIST: Adolphe d'Hastrel de Rivedoux (France, 1805-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito watches as her brother, Joseph Cerrito, plays draughts with her husband, Arthur Saint-Léon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1848
    • COMMENTS: The artist, A. d'Hastrel is seen standing
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage, game
  • s0998

    s0998

    • ARTIST: Lionel James (sketch);, H. M. Paget (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: On the march with the Tirah Expedition: A dip in the Kohat stream
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.7 x 22.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Afghanistan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: military, bath
  • s6016

    s6016

    • ARTIST: Amasis Painter (Greece, active ca. 550-510 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two naked boys dancing, female flutist, female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, oinochoe chous vase
    • DATE: -540
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • s1495

    s1495

    • ARTIST: André Galland (France, 1886-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ivory Coast dancers (Danseurs de la Côte d'Ivoire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.2 x 14.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "L'heure du ballet" by Paul-Emile Cadilhac
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ivory Coast, West Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • p0073

    p0073

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (La danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1930
    • DIMENSIONS: 146.5 x 114 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower right "F.Leger 30"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • s5877

    s5877

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl. A woman in an Ionic chiton with apoptygma. Attic red-figured lekythos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure lekythos vase
    • DATE: -470
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.94 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Dancing girl. A woman in an Ionic chiton with apoptygma, undertied, two cross-belts on breast, bracelets and earrings, dancing to left, playing on castanets; her hair flies loosely back, and she wears
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s5522

    s5522

    • ARTIST: William Fulton Soare (U.S.A., 1896-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fandang Oh!
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: fandango
  • p1515

    p1515

    • ARTIST: Louis Fabien (France, 1924-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Night extravaganza (Féerie nocturne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s0722

    s0722

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Breakdown. A Christmas entertainment at Guy's Hospital
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 15.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, stage, solo
  • p7915

    p7915

    • TITLE OF WORK: Preclassic dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, clay figurine
    • DATE: 500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Mexico
  • s2858

    s2858

    • ARTIST: Pranishnikoff (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro feast (Fête de nègres)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.8 x 18.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le Sahara algérien" by V. Largeau, 1874-1878.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, processional
  • s4875

    s4875

    • ARTIST: Komala Varadan (India, 19?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bharata Natyam
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1999
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Bharata Natyam, Indian traditional, solo
  • s3477

    s3477

    • TITLE OF WORK: Wer Paris sagt, meint Montmartre, wer Montmartre sagt meint: Moulin Rouge. José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Susanne Flon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1957
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Germany, France
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, cabaret, music-hall
  • p8413

    p8413

    • ARTIST: Nathaniel Sichel (Germany, 1843-1907) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Japanese fan-play dancer (Japanische Fächertänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.4 x 31.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s2657

    s2657

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Emma Livry in the ballet of "La sulphide", at the Opera (Mlle Emma Livry dans le ballet de la "Sylphide", à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by Fulgence Girard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, stage
  • p7751

    p7751

    • ARTIST: A. Henning
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ballet-girls's dream
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p0857

    p0857

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer seated (Danseur assis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink and charcoal
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • p4585

    p4585

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sword Dance of the knife makers (Schwerttanz der Messerer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored
    • DATE: 1600
    • COMMENTS: The "Messerer" (knife-makers) danced this dance on the night of the 03/02/1600 in Nürnberg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2261

    p2261

    • ARTIST: Philibert-Louis Debucourt (France, 1755-1832)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Federation Festival (La Fête de la Fédération)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.2 x 29.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Estimated $60,000-80,000
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2165

    p2165

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Centennial Ball in the Metropolitan Opera House
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p5993

    p5993

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Whirlpools (Tourbillons)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencils, color
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5226

    p5226

    • ARTIST: Charles Trevor Garland (U.K., 1855-1906) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A nursery pantomime
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.7 x 23.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration of a poem
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s1815

    s1815

    • ARTIST: David Hockney (U.K., 1937)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sacre du Printemps; three dancers on stage
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1981
    • DIMENSIONS: 57 x 75 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed with initials "DH81" at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • s3262

    s3262

    • ARTIST: Frederick Simpson Coburn (Canada, 1871-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas Eve gathering (Veillée de Noël)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: couple, traditional
  • p8983

    p8983

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Krishna festival of the Vishnuites: Bachanal in honor of Krishna (Das Krischnahfest der Wischnuiten: Bacchanal zu Ehren des Krischnah)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.8 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • s5857

    s5857

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lar. Roman bronze statuette.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: 44
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Der verhaltene Tanzschritt des Jünglings mit reichem Lockenschmuck steht im Widerspruch zur heftigen Bewegung des Gewandes. Bekleidet mit kurzer Tunika und an den Zehen offenen Halbstiefeln, hielt er
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome
    • KEYWORDS: deity
  • s2439

    s2439

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer "çengi" with finger cymbals
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, colored
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s4074

    s4074

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two statuettes of female dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p7633

    p7633

    • ARTIST: Alexandra Exter (Russia, 1882-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "Joseph the beautiful" (Le beau Joseph). First act
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1925
    • COMMENTS: A production of Kasyan Goleizovsky, on music by Alexander Skriabin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p4318

    p4318

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Ballet hindou". Danced by Anna Pavlova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1011

    s1011

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-day, this is my washing-day, but thanks to Titan Soap, I'm gay!
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.8 x 26.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement, publicity
  • p5286

    p5286

    • ARTIST: Johan Josef Malmberg (Sweden, 1836-1874)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Competition dance in Häverö (Domaredans I Häverö)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2192

    s2192

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Subway" No. 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1928
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p7054

    p7054

    • ARTIST: Giacomo Franco (Italy, 1550-1620) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gaillarde
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1581
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p5587

    p5587

    • ARTIST: Ken Mattas
    • TITLE OF WORK: Always something unheard in the air
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1996
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia
  • s5117

    s5117

    • ARTIST: Cecilia Beaux (U.S.A., 1855-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dorothea and Francesca. The dance class (Dorothea und Francesca. Der Tanzunterricht/ Die Tanzstunde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1898
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: duo, female
    • KEYWORDS: teaching, class, lesson
  • s3988

    s3988

    • ARTIST: Giacomo Balla (Italy, 1871-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, from a wire sculpture
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo, classical ballet
  • p5119

    p5119

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Celia Franca in Giselle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1636

    p1636

    • ARTIST: Alexander Archipenko (Ukraine, 1887-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
  • p7656

    p7656

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer with tambourine, male dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 210
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 79 x 214 x 87 cm total
    • COMMENTS: From a sarcophagus representing Bacchus, Ariadne and Hercules, found in Rome
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Italy, Rome
  • s3356

    s3356

    • ARTIST: Jules Worms (France, 1832-1924) (drawing); J. Lara (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Here she is taking part in a ball presided by the charming princess Pauline Borghèse (La voici où elle assiste à un bal présidé par la jolie princesse Pauline Borghèse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 18 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the story of Ida Saint-Elme, whose "Mémoires d'une contemporaine" were published in 1827
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s2022

    s2022

    • ARTIST: Bernhard Wosien (Germany, 1908-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sta Tria dance, Greece
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p1451

    p1451

    • ARTIST: Yannis Moralis (Greece, 1916-2009)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Choreftria)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing on paper
    • DATE: 1938
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • s2252

    s2252

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ellen Tels - In the hall of the Mountain King - 2 (Ellen Tels - In der Halle des Begkönigs - 2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern

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