Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0712

    s0712

    • ARTIST: Charles Edwin Fripp (U.K., 1854-1906) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A war dance by Soudanese at the festival of Bairam
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 30.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Festival of Kurban Bairam
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, war
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s0014

    s0014

    • ARTIST: Franz von Zülow (Austria, 1883-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, cutout on China ink
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.3 x 15.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: round, circular, circle
  • p5788

    p5788

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish carnival
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.8 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1335

    p1335

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in a brothel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s2454

    s2454

    • TITLE OF WORK: Four boy dancers, one acrobat and buffoons at a performance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8274

    p8274

    • TITLE OF WORK: The airing-court. Asylum for Criminal Lunatics ar Broadmoor, Berkshire
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 34.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2327

    p2327

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers' fresco at Catal Höyük
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -5500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Turkey
  • p5970

    p5970

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rose waltz (Valse rose)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencils, color
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, ballroom
  • p1941

    p1941

    • ARTIST: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (France, 1736-1807) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young woman dancing (Jeune femme dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p8807

    p8807

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Countess of Clarendon's ball, at the official residence, Downing Street
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.6 x 23.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s3150

    s3150

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cat's Game from the Corpus Christi ballet in Aix-en-Provence in 18th century costume (Le Jeu du Chat du ballet de la Fête-Dieu à Aix-en-Provence en costume du 18e siècle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Aix-en-Provence
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: cat
  • p2388

    p2388

    • ARTIST: P. Collini
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on isorel
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 73 x 99 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painter of the Italian school. Work signed and dated at the lower right corner.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Italy,
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • s0127

    s0127

    • ARTIST: Chana Orloff (Ukraine, 1888-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two women dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Israel, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo
  • p6864

    p6864

    • TITLE OF WORK: A fantasia in Tangier (Eine Fantasia in Tanger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.7 x 14.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Morocco,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2601

    s2601

    • ARTIST: L. Crépon (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the priests of Odji-Gonghen (Danse des prêtres d'Odji-Gonghen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le Japon" by Aimé Humbert, 1863-1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s3464

    s3464

    • ARTIST: Sergei Soudeikin (Russia, 1882-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Babye leto
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on carton
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 51.2 x 76 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, circle
  • p2337

    p2337

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Zille (Germany, 1858-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple (Tanzpaar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • p9484

    p9484

    • ARTIST: Juan Gris (Spain, 1887-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les tentations de la bergère": Oriental Man
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les tentations de la bergère", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes. Music by M. Montéclair (1666-1727), arranged and orchestrated by H. Casadesus. Choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; décors and
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0116

    p0116

    • ARTIST: Mohammed Racim (Algeria, 1896-1975)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two Algerians dancing together under a single veil (Deux Algériennes dansant ensemble sous un seule voile)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria,
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, Oriental
  • p9801

    p9801

    • ARTIST: Pablo Salinas Teruel (Spain, 1871-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing at the café
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 46 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional, Spanish dance
  • p7024

    p7024

    • ARTIST: Emile Bayard (France, 1837-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The foyer of the Opera (Le foyer de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 20.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the novel "Faut-il aimer?" by Léon de Tinseau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p3019

    p3019

    • ARTIST: Peter Tereszcuk (Austria, 1875-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze and ivory; base in black marble
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9600

    p9600

    • ARTIST: Giorgio de Chirico (Italy, 1888-1978)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le bal": Young Italian Peasant (danced by Serge Lifar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1929
    • COMMENTS: "Le bal", ballet in two scenes, by the Ballets Russes, 1929. Music by V. Rieti, story by Boris Kochno; choreography by Geirge Balanchine; curtain, décors and costumes by Giorgio de Chirico.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1133

    p1133

    • ARTIST: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré or Cheik Nadro (Ivory Coast, 1923-2014) & Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The observed dance (La danse regardée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ball-point pen and colored pencils
    • DATE: 1995
    • COMMENTS: The two artists present their work under the common sign: "Union des oeuvres de Bruly et Boetti".
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ivory Coast
  • p8156

    p8156

    • ARTIST: Thomas Gainsborough (U.K., 1727-1788)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Giovanna Baccelli
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1782
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9343

    p9343

    • ARTIST: Auguste Chabaud (France, 1882-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sailors' dance (La danse des matelots)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 76 x 107 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: navy, military
  • s0178

    s0178

    • ARTIST: Paul Meyerheim (Germany, 1842-1915) (painting), W. Biscombe Gardner (1847-1919 (drawing & engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A wild Indian show
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 47.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Germany, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • p6293

    p6293

    • ARTIST: Max Pechstein (Germany, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian Ballet VI (Russisches Ballett VI)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2463

    s2463

    • TITLE OF WORK: Five male dancers and a buffoon performing on raft
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1654

    s1654

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Reading the newspaper - Dancer (Lecture du journal - Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1899
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s3728

    s3728

    • ARTIST: Henri (de) Gissey (France, 1621-1673) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the night": The Witch ("Ballet de la nuit": Sorcière (Witch))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache
    • DATE: 1653
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9338

    p9338

    • ARTIST: Jean-Frederic Schall (France, 1752-1825)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A young girl dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 45 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s5171

    s5171

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two female dancers performing an oklasma dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Gold, blue and transparent glass
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 1.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Eastern end of the Yuz Oba ridge. Pavlovsky kurgan, 1858. Excavations of A.E. Liutsenko. Aquired in 1859. With text
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: oklasma dance
    • KEYWORDS: female dance,
  • p2103

    p2103

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0436

    s0436

    • ARTIST: Emilio Vasarri (Italy, 1862-1928) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At dance and play in Pompei (Bei Tanz und Spiel in Pompei)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.7 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Pompei, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: couple
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p5809

    p5809

    • ARTIST: Hippolyte Pauquet (France, 1797- ?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes Louis XV
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Pauquet, frères: Modes et costumes historiques.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5791

    p5791

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hampstead-Heath at holiday time
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.8 x 45.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1096

    p1096

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer putting on her chausson (Danseuse mettant son chausson)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.7 x 11.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4075

    s4075

    • ARTIST: Pierre Roche or Fernand Massignon (France, 1855-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Model of the sculpture for the Loïe Fuller Theater
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 7 x 7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • p0782

    p0782

    • ARTIST: Josef von Wodzinski (Germany, 1859-1918?) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the stall (In der Loge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print from a painting
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.3 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: ball,
  • s1644

    s1644

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two boxers dancing and double-flute player
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -585
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.3 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Attic black-figure pelike vase
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: sport, boxing, flute
  • p9364

    p9364

    • TITLE OF WORK: A ship's ball on board the "Samuel Hop" (Ein Schiffsball an Bord des "Samuel Hop")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: On a voyage from Germany to North America
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: ship, sea
  • s1806

    s1806

    • ARTIST: Charles Payzant (Canada, 1898-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The American Dancer" magazine cover, 10/1927
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, ballet, solo
    • KEYWORDS: solo, female, cat, animal
  • p4969

    p4969

    • TITLE OF WORK: Antonia Mercé, La Argentina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1934
    • COMMENTS: From the performance given in Mexico at the Palacio de Bellas Artes on 03/11/1934
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s5697

    s5697

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl with castanets. Qajar dynasty, Iran
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1815
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 158 x 90 cm
    • COMMENTS: Actually the girl plays zil (bronze discs), not castanets. Outlined against the bright blue sky visible through the window, a raven-haired beauty dances to the accompaniment of castanets. We can compa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: zil
  • p4343

    p4343

    • ARTIST: Bernard Daydé (France, 1921-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Composition for the ballet "Le fils prodigue" (The prodigal son)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1967
    • COMMENTS: "Le fils prodigue", Ballet de l'Opéra de Marseille, 1967
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5739

    s5739

    • TITLE OF WORK: Young woman acrobatic dancer (Acrobate - bateleuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine
    • DATE: -300
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 cm height
    • COMMENTS: From Greece, made in Taranto?
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: acrobatic
  • s2847

    s2847

    • ARTIST: Armand Vallée (France, active circa 1920-1930) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the dance hall you junp like a prawn! (Au dancing tu sautilles comme une crevette !)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: humor, cartoon, caricature
  • p6214

    p6214

    • ARTIST: Costas Mitropoulos
    • TITLE OF WORK: Caricature
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1970
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1907

    p1907

    • ARTIST: Achille Devéria (France, 1800-1857) (after D. José Becquer)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer and woman guitarist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance

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