Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p5256

    p5256

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Vera Nemtchinova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0263

    p0263

    • ARTIST: Georges Goursat or SEM (France, 1863-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Leonora Hugues et son danseur Maurice (Miss Leonora Hugues aaand her dancer Maurice)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p4312

    p4312

    • ARTIST: Georges Wakhévitch (Ukraine, 1907-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le jeune homme et la mort"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1946
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Roland Petit, music by Johann Sebastian Bach, story by Jean Cocteau, sets by George Wakhevitch. Created by the Ballets des Champs-Elysées on 25/06/1946, with Jean Babilée and Nathalie
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p2568

    p2568

    • ARTIST: V. Battistelli (drawing and lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Amalia Ferraris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1854
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.5 x 11.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2406

    s2406

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 51
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p2221

    p2221

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing children
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 72 x 86 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p6908

    p6908

    • ARTIST: Paul Émile Antony Morlon (France, 1868-1905) (painting); Jean Regnier (Belgium, 1801-1895)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tarantella from the ballet "L'étoile de Messine"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1861
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Musée des moeurs en action. Scène de l'Opéra. Paris, 1861.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, ballet, character
  • p7387

    p7387

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Madame Madeleine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on carton
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 64 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right "F A v Kaulbach / März 1904"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s3830

    s3830

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saturday 22 jully. Sidonie Rochon Company Anonymous "Chronicle of gravel", presented at Alyscamps (1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p6846

    p6846

    • ARTIST: Jean-Charles Duval (France, 1880-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Lorca in "Romeo and Juliet" (Mlle Lorca dans "Roméo et Juliette")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6338

    p6338

    • TITLE OF WORK: Jules Perrot and Fanny Elssler in the ballet "Esmeralda"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1848
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Perrot made his debut in Russia with "Esmeralda", at the Theatre of Saint Petersburg, in 1848.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0695

    s0695

    • TITLE OF WORK: A New Zealand excursion by two ladies. Actually Sir Roger de Coverley
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.2 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: New Zealand
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: music, concertina
  • s1445

    s1445

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sailors' dance on board (Danse de matelots à bord)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.4 x 18.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: military, navy, ship. sea
  • p5778

    p5778

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumed ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 11.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, costume
  • p6052

    p6052

    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance with cross-hold
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1580
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bulgaria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p5400

    p5400

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Pop Goes the Weasel" dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1847
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p6850

    p6850

    • ARTIST: Jean Souverbie (France, 1891-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Tha?s"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: decor
  • p3823

    p3823

    • TITLE OF WORK: An American in Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: To the music of George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly and introducing Leslie Caron, with Oscar Levant and Georges Guetary, Nina Foch
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • KEYWORDS: cinema, musical
  • p8233

    p8233

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Egg Dance of Friedreich and Hilda (Friedreich's und Hilda's Eiertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 7.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p9686

    p9686

    • ARTIST: Hermann Neuhaus (Germany, 1863-1941) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sylphs' dance (Elfenreigen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 34.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • s0364

    s0364

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Suzanna and the Barber": Almaviva en étudiant (Count Almaviva disguised as a student)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache, ink wash and pencil on paper laid down on board
    • DATE: 1956
    • DIMENSIONS: 50.8 x 35.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of Ruth Page. The ballet "Suzanna and the Barber" on music by Rossini arranged by Isaac Van Grove, choreography by Ruth Page and decors and costumes by Antoni Clavé, was first prod
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3614

    s3614

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sangeet Natak Akademi. Festival of Contemporary Indian Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, drawing, sketch, program cover
    • DATE: 1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, New Delhi
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p0947

    p0947

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing "Bacchanale" from "Iphigenia in Tauris" by Gluck
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving from chalk drawing
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2857

    p2857

    • ARTIST: E. Guy (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sardane in Rousillon (Sardane en Rousillon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: sardana, folk
  • s5494

    s5494

    • ARTIST: Bernard Daydé (France, 1921-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume for "Senor de Manara" - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1959
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7491

    p7491

    • TITLE OF WORK: Urban music, feasting and dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on cassone panel
    • DATE: 1425
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Outdoor dance by wealthy Italian gentry
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p5991

    p5991

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait with dancing hands (Portrait aux mains qui dansent)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3077

    s3077

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1942
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8500

    p8500

    • ARTIST: J. Kleinert (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Invitation to dance (Aufforderung zum Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.7 x 25.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, couple
  • s4506

    s4506

    • TITLE OF WORK: Naples. Costumes. Tarantella (Napoli - Costumi - Tarantella)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples
    • DANCE FORM: tarantrella, traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p2615

    p2615

    • ARTIST: Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, 1886-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Dated Vienna 20/06/1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p5947

    p5947

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Queen of the night (La reine de la nuit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0826

    s0826

    • ARTIST: Reginald Thomas Cleaver (1870-1954) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: My first dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.3 x 22.6
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, mixed
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s2449

    s2449

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mustafa Ali presenting his book to Lala Mustafa Pasha in a Mevlevi dervishes' teke (cloister)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Mustafa Ali was a famous historian of the Ottoman Empire
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1557

    p1557

    • ARTIST: Hugh William Williams (U.K., 1773-1829) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1820
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2480

    s2480

    • ARTIST: Jules Lavée or Adolphe Lavée (France, 18??-1904) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance! - Marble statue by Del-Planche (La danse! - Statue en marbre par Del-Planche)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 33,5 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • KEYWORDS: sculpture
  • p6584

    p6584

    • ARTIST: Edouard Halouze (France, 1895-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Valse triste. Scene for the film "Les ballets fantastiques de Loïe Fuller"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p1055

    p1055

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dwarf dancer (Danseuse nain)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1901
  • p4407

    p4407

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Etonnement
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p3390

    p3390

    • ARTIST: Ian Spurling (Australia, 1937-1996)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Elite syncopations"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1974
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5296

    s5296

    • ARTIST: Georgii Pavlovich Postnikov (Russia, 1950-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Swan Lake ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1980
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • p2810

    p2810

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: African Ballet of Guinea
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
    • DATE: 1963
    • COMMENTS: Athens, Kotopouli Theater, September 1963.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Guinea, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p9231

    p9231

    • ARTIST: Helmut Middendorf (Germany, 1953-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Tänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache over pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1981
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 29.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed titled and dated 81 (1981)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s5307

    s5307

    • ARTIST: Jan Rustem (Greece/Lithuania, 1762-1835)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Maria Mirska, Barbara Shumsky and Adam Napoleon Mirski (Portret Marii Mirskiej, Barbary Szumskiej I Adama Napoleona Mirskiego)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1808
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 159 x 124,5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p4019

    p4019

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Little dancer aged fourteen (Petite danseuse de quatorze ans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, partly gilt, cotton skirt, satin ruban, wooden base
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 95.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: The original wax sculpture is part of the Mellon Collection in Upperville, Virginia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0750

    s0750

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball in the City Hall on St. Andrews day. Disunited Germany: The Scotch reel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: With the China Squadron in the East - at Hong Kong
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Hong Kong
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo, couple, reel
  • s2722

    s2722

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serbian national dances, no. 22
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 22
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s3900

    s3900

    • ARTIST: Reinhold Rudolf Junghanns (Switzerland, 1884-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clotilde, dancing to self abandon (Clotilde von Derp-Sacharoff, selbstversunken tanzend) 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1915
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0809

    p0809

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anna Pavlova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored
    • DATE: 1920
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1891

    p1891

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance (4)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance

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