Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3059

    p3059

    • ARTIST: George Lambrou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tornado dancer (O choreftis sifounas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1992
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 x 35 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p1528

    p1528

    • ARTIST: Max Pechstein (Germany, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival II (Karneval II)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 38 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • s5536

    s5536

    • ARTIST: Georges de La Chapelle (France, ??-1655) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Turkish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1682
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ottoman, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo
  • p9658

    p9658

    • ARTIST: Peter Candid (Flanders, 1548?-1628) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A celestial concert with King David playing the harp surrounded by angels
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1645
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 43.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painter of the German school, after a composition by Peter Candid engraved by J. Sadeler
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • s1416

    s1416

    • TITLE OF WORK: La javanaise. Au Bon Marché
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia, Java
    • DANCE FORM: duo, stage
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s5102

    s5102

    • TITLE OF WORK: Man with Yellow Kerchief. Costume design for a dance choreographed by Judith Berg and Felix Fibich
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1950
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Jewish
    • DANCE FORM: solo, female
  • p5331

    p5331

    • ARTIST: August Mannerheim (Finland, 1805-1876)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the waters (Bal des eaux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sepia
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 62.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p5397

    p5397

    • TITLE OF WORK: Colored aristocrady cakewalk by Gus W. Bernard. Respectfully dedicated to Joe S. Pieringer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, cakewalk
  • s4291

    s4291

    • ARTIST: Charles Homualk (France, 1909-1996)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sands (Les Sables)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Dancers from Les Sables d'Olonne, Vendée region in France. Editions Gaby 13
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Vendée, Sables d'Olonne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p5435

    p5435

    • ARTIST: Cambo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Long dance (Dantza luzea)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0861

    p0861

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink, theater program
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: Souvenir program of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (Diaghilev) for the season 1923-1924.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7413

    p7413

    • TITLE OF WORK: Procession of Indra, the sun king
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1050
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • s0107

    s0107

    • TITLE OF WORK: Temporary ball rooms
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 12.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s3878

    s3878

    • ARTIST: Alastair
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sacharoff im Kostüm für einen Münchner Ball (Sacharoff in costume for a ball in Munich)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink and color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p9538

    p9538

    • ARTIST: Rafael Argeles y Escriche (Spain, 1894-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 189.5 x 101.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, flamenco, Spanish dance, stage
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1221

    s1221

    • ARTIST: F. Auburtin (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene (Scène de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.4 x 10.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Salon de 1918, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1457

    p1457

    • ARTIST: Thanassis Spyropoulos (Greece, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Murder of a dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1968
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4928

    p4928

    • ARTIST: Garry
    • TITLE OF WORK: Modern dance (Danse moderne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Salon de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p2533

    p2533

    • ARTIST: Auguste Leroux (France, 1871-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Salon de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0018

    s0018

    • ARTIST: Salvador Russo Ferrán
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing at the corner (Bailando en la esquina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1990
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular, couple
  • p8523

    p8523

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni in the ballet "La fille du Danube"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1836
    • COMMENTS: Design for a lampshade
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5503

    s5503

    • TITLE OF WORK: Teatro Comunale, Bologna. Giselle.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1975
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Bologna
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: poster
  • p8920

    p8920

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Backcloth design for scene 2 of the ballet "Le pavillon d'Armide". "Le jardin d'Armide - Le rêve"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, ink and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s5901

    s5901

    • TITLE OF WORK: Komos, five youths, wine jar, balancing vases. Attic red-figured kylix vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figured kylix vase
    • DATE: -460
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 29.5 diam.
    • COMMENTS: From Vulci, Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: wine jar
  • s1440

    s1440

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancers (Danseurs espagnols)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 8.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, stilts
  • p1908

    p1908

    • TITLE OF WORK: In Spain (En Espagne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Poem by C. Saint-Saëns
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • p3138

    p3138

    • TITLE OF WORK: An early waltz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz, couple
  • s3502

    s3502

    • TITLE OF WORK: Court dance in the open
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1425
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p8708

    p8708

    • TITLE OF WORK: An Irish harvest home
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.7 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Drawn by an Irish artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ireland, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, round
  • p6976

    p6976

    • ARTIST: J. Scheppe (drawing); Sachse (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Desargue in the ballet "The sleepwalker"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1829
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5756

    s5756

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two fragments of a funeral urn or a funeral cippus. Banquet and dance scene (Deux fragments d'une urne cinéraire ou d'une cippe funérairernScène de banquet et de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, fetid stone
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 83 cm
    • COMMENTS: Made in Chiusi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
  • p3927

    p3927

    • ARTIST: José de Arrue y Valle
    • TITLE OF WORK: Merienda
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1962
    • DIMENSIONS: 87 x 45 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
  • p4634

    p4634

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance description
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1700
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s3071

    s3071

    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance evening in the grand meeting hall of the Petit Journal (Une soirée dansante dans la Grande Salle des Réunions du Petit Journal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 36.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7735

    p7735

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The vintage" ballet. Mr. Taglioni father (Paul), Miss Pierson (Rosette), Mr Stiasny (Lucas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1826
    • COMMENTS: Erinnerungen an das Ballet des Kgl. Hoftheaters (Ballet souvenirs of the Royal Theater), Stuttgart
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4024

    p4024

    • ARTIST: Edmond van Saanen Algi (Romania, 1882-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p8204

    p8204

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two women and three disguised men follow a lyre (kithara?) player
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, breastplate
    • DATE: -650
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Decoration on the back of a breastplate, found at Olympia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle, procession
    • KEYWORDS: music, lyre, kithara
  • p9772

    p9772

    • ARTIST: Peter Bout (Flanders, 1658-1702) & Adriaen Frans Boudewyns (Flanders, 1644-1711)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Flemish country fair
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1675
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 108 x 136.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0054

    s0054

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Giselle", scene 1: Court lady in hunting dress
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pen and indian ink over pencil
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Formerly of the Serge Lifar Collection
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3637

    s3637

    • ARTIST: Carlo Paretti (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grand miltary ballet from "The struggle between Air and Water" in Vienna for the wedding of emperor Leopold I
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1667
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna, Wien
    • DANCE FORM: court, equestrian
    • KEYWORDS: animal, horse, military
  • p4224

    p4224

    • ARTIST: Pieter Miricenys (drawing, after Pieter Brueghel the Elder)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Beggars dancing in front of their tent
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1570
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2178

    s2178

    • ARTIST: Cornellius Paderni (drawing); Nicolaus Billy (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two women dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1762
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: duo
  • s4702

    s4702

    • ARTIST: Jean-Gabriel Domergue (France, 1889-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (La danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 56 x 47 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, ballet
  • p3613

    p3613

    • ARTIST: Jacques-Louis David (France, 1748-1825) & Jean-Honoré Fragonard (France, 1732-1806)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Marie-Madeleine Guimard as Terpsichore
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1775
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 195.5 x 120.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Guimard commissioned Fragonard to decorate her new house, in the rue Chaussée d'Antin, Paris. When Fragonard quarelled with her in 1773, he defaced his portrait of her. David was called to continue th
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3495

    p3495

    • ARTIST: Oliver Smith (U.S.A., 1918-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Fancy free"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1944
    • COMMENTS: "Fance free", ballet in one act. Choreography by Jerome Robbins, music by Leonard Bernstein, costumes by Kermit Love, sets by Oliver Smith. Created on 18/04/1944 at the Metropolitan Opera of New York.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s3864

    s3864

    • ARTIST: Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p6351

    p6351

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1050
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • p1560

    p1560

    • ARTIST: Louis-François Cassas (France, 1756-1827)
    • TITLE OF WORK: View of the cloister of Bellapais Abbey (Vue du cloître de l'abbaye de Bellapais)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, black ink and gouache
    • DATE: 1799
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 37 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cyprus, Bellapais
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3208

    s3208

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, clay, statuette
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found in the Northern Necropolis of Samothrace
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • s2566

    s2566

    • TITLE OF WORK: Eight girls dancing and two musicians in a scene from "Praise the Lord"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1620
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Painting of the Byzantine tradition, by Michael and Constantine from Linotopi, 1619-1920.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece, Epirus, Zagori, Monodendri
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, circle
    • KEYWORDS: religion, drum, psaltery,

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