TITLE OF WORK: Miss Emilia Ferri called Ferletti and Miss Tourtois. Burnt alive during the fire (Mlle Emilia Ferri, ditte Ferletti et Mlle Tourtois. Brulées vives pendant l'incendie)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1887
DIMENSIONS: 21 x 17.5 cm
COMMENTS: Incendie de l'Opéra Comique. Elles ont péri dans leurs loges, asphyxiées au 5e étage. Ferri a été reconnue à son maillot rose.
TITLE OF WORK: "The Ox on the Roof" ("Le boeuf sur le toit")
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache and tempera on paper laid down on canvas
DATE: 1923
DIMENSIONS: 143 x 111 cm
COMMENTS: Signed and dated '23. The cabaret "Le boeuf sur le toit" was situated in Paris, rue Boissy d'Anglais. Its name was taken from a 1920 pantomime-ballet by Jean Cocteau, music by Darius Milhaud, decor an
ARTIST: Léonard-Agathon van Wydeveld (France, 1841-1923)
TITLE OF WORK: Girl dancing (Jeune fille en train de danser)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, moulage creux, ciselé et doré
DATE: 1900
DIMENSIONS: 53.5 x 28.6 cm
COMMENTS: Léonard-Agathon received the gold prize at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris for a "surtout de table" composed of 15 figurines en "porcelaine biscuit" representing the rythmic progression of a da
TITLE OF WORK: Backcloth design for the ballet "Façade"
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1931
COMMENTS: Originally written as a setting to poems by Edith Sitwell. First produced by the Camargo Society at the Cambridge theatre, London, on 26/04/1931. Ballet in one act by Frederick Ashton to music by Will