Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p2730

    p2730

    • ARTIST: C. Wilhelm or William John Charles Pitcher (U.K., 1858-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the revival of "A dream of butterflies and roses": Adeline Genée
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1915
    • COMMENTS: A ballet by Adeline Genée. London Coliseum 22/03/1915.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1003

    s1003

    • ARTIST: Hugh Thomson (Ireland, 1860-1920) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance at Hollydale Hall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the short story "A coaching idyll" by Edmund Pitley
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p0265

    p0265

    • ARTIST: Edouard Manet (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancers (Danseurs espagnols)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • p4822

    p4822

    • ARTIST: Emile Deschamps
    • TITLE OF WORK: Geat ballroom and concert hall in the Conversationshause in Baden-Baden (Grosser Ball- und Konzert-Saal im Konversationshause in Baden-Baden)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p3663

    p3663

    • ARTIST: Ramiro Arrue (Spain, 1892-1971) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The "horse-rider" in the Basque dance of glass (Le "cavalier-cheval" dans la danse basque du verre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Aux Pyrénées. La fête traditionelle basque" by André Geiger.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Holland, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • s1291

    s1291

    • ARTIST: André Galland (France, 1886-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An afternoon in the box of toys. Dance class, prepared by Mrs. H. Gontcharowa, directed for the stage by a ballet mistress of seven years
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 13.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Spectacles pour enfants"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: children, instruction
  • s3987

    s3987

    • ARTIST: Marcelle Pesle (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ride that will not be easy to run (Une cavale qui ne va pas etre facile à éperonner)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, color, cartoon, caricature
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
  • p3811

    p3811

    • ARTIST: François Martin-Kavel (France, 1861-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer at rest (Danseuse au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p6992

    p6992

    • ARTIST: H. Waldow Jr.
    • TITLE OF WORK: Polish dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2943

    s2943

    • ARTIST: E. Garnier (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The collection of Mr A. Jubinal, recently deceased. Ballet dancer, Louis 14 period, wood statuette (La collection de M. A. Jubinal, récemment décédé. Danseur de ballet - Louis XIV, statuette en bois)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8877

    p8877

    • ARTIST: Alexandra Exter (Russia, 1882-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for a ballet by Kassian Goleizovsky on music by Alexander Scriabin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s4267

    s4267

    • TITLE OF WORK: Court dancer doing a handstand
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1825
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.1 x 10.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Turkey, Ottoman
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, court, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat, carpet
  • p6490

    p6490

    • ARTIST: Lucien Faure (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Loïe Fuller, serpentine dance (Miss Loïe Fuller, danse serpentine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1419

    s1419

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the fans in Japan (La danse des éventails au Japon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: stage, folk, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: fan
  • s6108

    s6108

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Copy after the ancient "Dancing faune" (Copie d'après l'antique Faune dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal on laid paper
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 63.8 x 57.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: faun
  • s3846

    s3846

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cunningham, Ancient Theatre in Arles (Cunningham, Théâtre Antique, Arles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p0530

    p0530

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances of the whirling dervishes in Constantinople (Danses des derwisches tourneurs, à Constantinople)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Istanbul, Constantinople
    • DANCE FORM: whirling, sema
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s6012

    s6012

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene 2: Three girls in a line dance holding hands
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 0
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 71.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Entity ID: 1217774. Serial Number: 6761302. Vordergrund: Alle drei Mädchen halten sich an den Händen. Bekleidet sind sie jeweils mit einem ärmellosen Chiton und einem Mantel, der bei jeder anders gefü
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Turkey
  • p2984

    p2984

    • ARTIST: S. V. Adrianov
    • TITLE OF WORK: First of May
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1955
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s1136

    s1136

    • ARTIST: Lucien Lantier (France, 1879-1960) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the dance corner
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.8 x 12.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p6937

    p6937

    • ARTIST: Romain de Tirtoff "Erté" (Russia, 1892-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "A slow movement"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1918
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cabaret, costume
  • s4594

    s4594

    • ARTIST: Louis Antoni (France, 1872-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the nomads (Danse chez les nomades)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 110 x 140 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left "Antoni"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, duo
    • KEYWORDS: kerchief, tambourine, tents
  • s3084

    s3084

    • ARTIST: Christian Bérard (France, 1902-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar in the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3137

    p3137

    • TITLE OF WORK: Blue waltz (Valse bleue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1908
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s5256

    s5256

    • TITLE OF WORK: Relief of a Roman Sarcophage on Bacchus with the discovery of Ariadne (Relief eines roemischen Bacchus-Sarkophags mit der Auffindung Ariadnes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief on marble.
    • DATE: 215
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: See drawing of the same by Giovanni Battista Franco.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome, antiquity
    • KEYWORDS: musicians
  • s0643

    s0643

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scottish Games at Lillie Bridge. Young Caledonians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes,
  • p3603

    p3603

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Gavotte at Trianon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: La fête champêtre du 27 juin au hameau de Marie-Antoinette, à Trianon: la gavotte
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, gavotte
  • s0514

    s0514

    • ARTIST: René Péan (France, 1875-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with plumes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 130 x 89 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, stage
    • KEYWORDS: feathers
  • p5120

    p5120

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anne Lascelles rests on the lawn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4726

    s4726

    • ARTIST: Michalis or Doris Papageorgiou (Greece, 1896-1987)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A can-can dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and gouache on paper board
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 98.5 x 70 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cabaret, cancan, solo
  • p8509

    p8509

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Falguière (France, 1831-1900)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cleo de Merode (Cléo de Mérode)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statue, plaster model
    • DATE: 1902
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 165 x 77 x 57 cm
    • COMMENTS: This is the original plaster model taken from the body of the dancer. The final marble statue is lost. Copies in wax, bronze and gilt bronze exist in original and reduced size. Compare with illustrati
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5533

    s5533

    • ARTIST: Jose Guadalupe Posada (Mexico, 1852-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballad: 'The Rumba' (Corrido: 'La Rumba')
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching on zinc
    • DATE: 1943
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: rumba, couple
  • p1673

    p1673

    • ARTIST: Eldsten
    • TITLE OF WORK: Back cover illustration for "La danse", June 1921
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1921
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Suédois
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s2691

    s2691

    • TITLE OF WORK: The masked ball at the Opera. One hour in the morning - Quadrille of the dancing celebrities (Le bal masqué à l'Opéra. Une heure du matin - Quadrille des célébrités dansantes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, popular, quadrille
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • p7216

    p7216

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Ouled-Na?l dancers (Danse des Ouled-Na?ls)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 10.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Africa, Maghreb, Algeria, Tunisia, Arab
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Arab
  • p1829

    p1829

    • ARTIST: Vaslav Nijinski (Poland, 1889-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Untitled
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0662

    p0662

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A popular ball for the national holiday in Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p0932

    p0932

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers at rest (Deux danseuses au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.2 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Monaco, Monte Carlo
  • p9431

    p9431

    • ARTIST: Hans Thoma (Germany, 1839-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing nymphs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 77 x 97 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p0606

    p0606

    • ARTIST: Alth & Mestel (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Invitation to dance (Aufforderung zum Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, popular, ballroom, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: child, animal, bear
  • p4892

    p4892

    • ARTIST: E. de Montzaigle
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Boston tour
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, colored
    • DATE: 1895
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p6435

    p6435

    • ARTIST: Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro dance (Negertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p0359

    p0359

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer seated, seen from the side to the right (Danseuse assise, vue de profil vers la droite)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, essence on blue paper
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 29.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9633

    p9633

    • ARTIST: Otto Pilny (Switzerland, 1866-1936)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An entertainment
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 179 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1910 at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo, stage, traditional, popular
  • p8144

    p8144

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: Eagle dancers at Tesuque pueblo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • s2526

    s2526

    • ARTIST: Félix Régamey (France, 1844-1907) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kagoura
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, France
    • DANCE FORM: Kagoura
  • p0730

    p0730

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance ceremony of the Tecunas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 20 cm
    • COMMENTS: Published by Furne in Paris
    • KEYWORDS: natives
  • p5428

    p5428

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1809

    p1809

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Dmitriyev (Russia, 1900-1948)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The fable of the fox, the rooster, the cat and the goat": The Goat and The Cat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.3 x 28.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Saint Petersburg
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2769

    s2769

    • ARTIST: Edouard Riou (France 1833-1900) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Crazy passion of the indigenous women of Fatiko for music and dance (Passion folle des femmes indigènes de Fatiko pour la musique et la danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Zanzibar, Ismailia, Gondokoro, Central Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional

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