TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le bal", scene 2
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gouache 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.
TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the savages of the Saint José Mission (Danse des sauvages de la Mission de St. José - Tanz der Wilden von der Mission St. Josua)
TITLE OF WORK: Seated Dionysos and satyrs dancing on either side of handles
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure eye-kylix vase
DATE: -480
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 8.7 x 22.3 cm diam.
COMMENTS: Image of the severed head of the Gorgon Medusa on the interior. Large staring eyes on the exrterior referring to loss of consciousness, ecstatic dance, drunkenness, even death.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
TITLE OF WORK: The dance. The ceiling paintings of the Loge house in the new theater building of Hannover (Der Tanz. Die Plafondgemälde des Logenhauses im neuen Theatergebäude zu Hannover)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1853
DIMENSIONS: 8.2 x 10.9 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany, Hannover,
TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Monument for a dead body"
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1965
COMMENTS: "Monument for a dead body", a ballet on music by Boerman, design by Toer van Schayk, choreography by van Dantzig; first performed by the National Dutch Ballet at the Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, on 19/
TITLE OF WORK: Well-wishing pleasure illustration. The picture of summer (Glückwünschende Freudensdarstellung. Die Gestalt des Sommers). Detail
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1652
COMMENTS: From a series presented by the Duchess Sophie Elisabeth (1613-1676) to her husband the Duke August zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg (1579-1666) for his birthday
