Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s1661

    s1661

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Barberina", the Palace of the West. Direkted by Georg Tichauer, Berlin W, Hardenbergstr. 18 ("Barberina", das Palais des Westens. Direktion: Georg Tichauer, Berlin W, Hardenbergstr. 18)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.4 x 8.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s2340

    s2340

    • TITLE OF WORK: Copy of part of the dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Mural from the early Tang at Cavern No. 220 in the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8346

    p8346

    • ARTIST: Achille Beltrame (Italy, 1871-1945) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The grand ball for the Red Cross in the halls of the Society of the Garden, Milan (La gran festa da ballo a beneficio della "Croce Rossa" nelle sale della Società del Giordino, a Milano)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, color
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.8 x 23.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p1464

    p1464

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chinese decoration (Décoration chinoise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, China
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0619

    s0619

    • ARTIST: F. W. Lawson (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Jews' Infant School ball at Willis's Rooms
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.4 x 29.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2582

    p2582

    • ARTIST: William Drummond (U.K., 1854-1924) (after a print by)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Céline Céleste (née Keppler) as the Wild Arab Boy in the play "The French spy"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1834
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.3 x 22.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Queen's Theatre, London, 1831, and Bowery Theatre, New York, 1834. Printed by Nathaniel Currier, New York.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4938

    p4938

    • TITLE OF WORK: Disco nacional Odeon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: record cover
  • s0026

    s0026

    • ARTIST: Paul Landowski (France, 1875-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with serpents (Danseuse aux serpents)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, black gilt
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: Signed and titles, foundry stamp
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, animal, serpent, snake,
  • p7550

    p7550

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Zamacuca
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1853
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Chile
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, zamacueca, couple
  • s5313

    s5313

    • ARTIST: Teofil Kwiatkowski (Poland, 1809-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chopin's Polonaise; Zawisza (Polonez Chopina ; Zawisza Czarny)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8,3 x 4,4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: polonaise
  • p7123

    p7123

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Schéhérazade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7344

    p7344

    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome. Drama after the poem by Oscar Wilde with the same title (Salome. Drama nach Oscar Wilde's gleichnamiger Dichtung)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p2173

    p2173

    • ARTIST: George Hunt
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mr. Owen's Institution, New Lamark
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint
    • DATE: 1825
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p0348

    p0348

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Group of dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1879
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0449

    p0449

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The red dancer (La danseuse rouge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1907
    • DIMENSIONS: 99 x 80 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
  • p0274

    p0274

    • ARTIST: Eugène Giraud (France, 1806-1881)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in a posada (Danse dans une posada)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1840
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 170 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p6681

    p6681

    • ARTIST: Emile Bayard (France, 1837-1891) (drawing); Huyot
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Javanese dancers at the Universal Exhibition (Les danseuses javanaises. Exposition Universelle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 49.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Universal Exhibition of 1889, in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
  • p1440

    p1440

    • ARTIST: Edouard Manet (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Don Mariano Camprubi or The Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1862
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 15.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: First dancer of the Teatro Real de Madrid
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • s1080

    s1080

    • TITLE OF WORK: Eighty years ago... Cockle's pills
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.7 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p4114

    p4114

    • ARTIST: Paul Destez (France, 1851-1919) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Egmont", a lyrical drama ("Egmont", drame lyrique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.4 x 29.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Théâtre de L'Opéra Comique, Paris. Music by Gaston Salvayre.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p8176

    p8176

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Le tricorne"; first performed at the Alhambra Theatre, London, on 22/07/1919. Distribution: Léonide Massine (The miller), Tamara Karsavina (The miller's wife), Léon Woizikowsky (The corregidor
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p2560

    p2560

    • TITLE OF WORK: Jules Perrot as Alain in the ballet "La filleule des fées"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 13 cm
    • COMMENTS: Théâtre de la Nation, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7645

    p7645

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Fanny Elssler
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s4459

    s4459

    • ARTIST: Carl Julius Milde (Germany, 1803-1875) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The death dance in the Saint Mary church of Lübeck (Der Todtentanz in der Marienkirche zu Lübeck)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, chalk
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.4 x 47.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Text by Wilhelm Mantels (Germany, 1816-1879)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: death, macabre
  • s2968

    s2968

    • ARTIST: Marguerite Acarin "Akarova" (Belgium, 1904-1999)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sets design for "Pacific 2.3.1" by Honegger
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1933
    • COMMENTS: Akarova, Belgian dancer, choreographer, and artist, was called "the Belgian Isadora Duncan"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s4032

    s4032

    • ARTIST: Giulio Gioia (Italy, 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance. Havana 2003 (La danza. Havana 2003)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2003
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Cuba
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3063

    p3063

    • ARTIST: George Lambrou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance under a tree (Choros kato ap' to dentro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1983
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p3775

    p3775

    • ARTIST: M. M. Vienne
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pierrots and Colombine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • p5963

    p5963

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Waltz for Mr. Carpeaux (Valse pour Monsieur Carpeaux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1575

    s1575

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance around the world (La danse à travers le monde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 5.2 x 18.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, ballroom, stage, traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: fire
  • p6220

    p6220

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance (Danse espagnole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 40.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: One of the approximately 150 figurines found in the artist's workshop after his death in 1917, and one of the 30 among them who were finished. The work was most probably inspired by an 1837 bronze sta
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo, Spanish dance
  • p1649

    p1649

    • ARTIST: Pablo Gargallo (Spain, 1881-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Little dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, copper
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.5 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • s1256

    s1256

    • ARTIST: Malvina Hoffman (U.S.A., 1885-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A translucent wax head of Anna Pavlova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wax
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p1969

    p1969

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Robert Helpmann in the ballet "Hamlet"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4542

    p4542

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Skating rink": Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p2297

    p2297

    • ARTIST: Barry Flanagan (U.K., 1941-2009)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Large mirror Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1992
    • DIMENSIONS: 309.2 x 226 x 91.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0527

    s0527

    • ARTIST: Georges Rouault (France, 1871-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Parade
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint printed in colors
    • DATE: 1930
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 27 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a total edition of 270, executed for André Suarès' unoublished "Cirque".
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: circus
  • p8698

    p8698

    • ARTIST: Robert Thomas Landells (U.K., 1833-1877)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebration of His Royal Highness Prince Albert's birthday, at Rosenau
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Visit of her Majesty to the Court of Coburg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s4540

    s4540

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dancer (Danseuse orientale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette chryséléphantine, ivory
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s1386

    s1386

    • TITLE OF WORK: The invisible band, "His Master's Voice" electrical recordings
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p4405

    p4405

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Tristesse
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s0214

    s0214

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm August Stryowski (Poland, 1834-1917) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Flissen (Tanzende Flissen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 23.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2030

    p2030

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The sylphs" ("Les sylphides")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1706

    p1706

    • TITLE OF WORK: Modern Greeks (Greci moderni)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1843
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1201

    p1201

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 69 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p4321

    p4321

    • ARTIST: Maria Szantho (Hungary, 1897-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The exotic dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 x 60.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p1466

    p1466

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Mahomedan public dancer (Mahometane danseuse publique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo, stage
  • s4899

    s4899

    • ARTIST: Tayeb Lahlou (Morocco, 1919-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ahouach, or the fusion dance (Ahouach ou la danse fusionnelle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1964
    • DIMENSIONS: 64 x 80 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, processional
  • s3776

    s3776

    • ARTIST: Charlotte or Lotte Reiniger (Germany, 1899-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Siluettes from a cartoon film
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • p2512

    p2512

    • TITLE OF WORK: Antoine Paul as Gregorio in the vaudeville "La Gitana"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1837
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris, Théâtre dy Gymnase
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: vaudeville

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