Dance History Gallery

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Dance History Gallery
  • p8926

    p8926

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Shéhérazade": La Sultane Rouge (the Red Sultana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, watercolor, gouache and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7139

    p7139

    • ARTIST: F. Buschkin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A wedding evening in Sprewald (Ein Hochzeitsabend im Spreewald)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p8928

    p8928

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Shéhérazade". Second variant
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p1890

    p1890

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance (3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance
  • p5013

    p5013

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folk Ballet of Fine Arts. Official season of 1960 (Ballet Folklorico de Bellas Artes. Temporada oficial 1960)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, program cover
    • DATE: 1960
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, 1960. Genral director and choreographer Amalia Hern?ndez, stage director Guillermo Arriaga.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, folk
  • p1120

    p1120

    • ARTIST: Ricardo Canals y Llambí (Spain, 1876-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 54 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Catalonia
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s5465

    s5465

    • ARTIST: Luigi Mayer (Italy, 1755-1803)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An Egyptian ball at Ned Sili
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching, hand-colored
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2211

    s2211

    • TITLE OF WORK: Caricature of Antonia Mercé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1933
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional, popular
  • s6070

    s6070

    • TITLE OF WORK: A,B: Komos (men, women with krotala)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure cup, vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p0715

    p0715

    • ARTIST: José Gutiérrez Solana (Spain, 1886-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Café with singing and dancing (Café cantante)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1938
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, flamenco, Spanish dance, Spanish dance
  • s0439

    s0439

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, chalk
    • DATE: 1924
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Drawn in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9462

    p9462

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant": The Carnation Fairy
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1884

    s1884

    • ARTIST: Graham Simmons
    • TITLE OF WORK: The pest-house of the night-club
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.3 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s4467

    s4467

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene from "Night sun" (Scène dansée dans "Soleil de nuit")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • s3211

    s3211

    • ARTIST: Giuseppe Biasi da Teulada (Italy, 1885-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballo di Cambras
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, chromolithograph
    • DATE: 1936
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Sardinia, Sardegna
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Ballo di Cabras
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, accordion
  • p3330

    p3330

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sailor wih golden flesh in a kneeling Zeibekiko figure, 12/01/1981
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on acrylic preparation
    • DATE: 1981
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.6 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 12/01/1981
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: military, rebetiko
  • p2636

    p2636

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers in Hamburg (Hamburger Tänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink pen and brush
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 44.8 x 35 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7436

    p7436

    • ARTIST: Xavier Sager (France, 1870-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tango (Le tango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, couple, ballroom
  • p8457

    p8457

    • ARTIST: Franz von Stuck (Germany, 1863-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 45.7 x 24.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed. In contemporary frame designed by the artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Israel, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p4293

    p4293

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flanders, 1525-1569)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Epileptics dancing at a healing source
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, feather
    • DATE: 1560
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: therapy
  • p5203

    p5203

    • TITLE OF WORK: Waltz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1816
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz
  • p8481

    p8481

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler died on the 27h of November (Fanny Elssler, gestorben am 27. November)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p1237

    p1237

    • ARTIST: Sonia Delaunay (France, 1885-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Electric dancer (Danseuse électrique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p8469

    p8469

    • ARTIST: J. Salles (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance under the balm during the storm (La danse sous la baume, pendant l'orage)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.8 x 15.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p6332

    p6332

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Ivan Wahlberg (Jean Walberg, né le 23 juillet 1767)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1795
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8491

    p8491

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm von Diez (Germany, 1839-1907) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pause (Feierabend)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • s4608

    s4608

    • ARTIST: Fabio Fabbi (Italy, 1861-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 46 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p6358

    p6358

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kujawiak
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1937
    • COMMENTS: Exhibition of the "Archives Internationales de la Danse", Paris 1937, Polish stand
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1116

    s1116

    • ARTIST: Georges Bruyer (France, 1883-1962) (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The mechanical piano of the battle of the Marne (Le piano mécanique de la bataille de la Marne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 36.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: French sodiers dancing to the tune from a mechanical piano abandoned by the retreating German forces
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany, Marne
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p5874

    p5874

    • TITLE OF WORK: The tree of life
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on fabric
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Votif panel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Tibet
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p0960

    p0960

    • ARTIST: Yury Pavlovich Annenkov (Russia, 1889-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1921
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, portrait
  • p0491

    p0491

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ritual dance scene. Four elaborately dressed females dancing ecstatically in a natural setting filled with lilies
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, ring, gold
    • DATE: -1550
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found in the royal tomb of Isopata, near Cnossos, Crete. Neopalatian period.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Crete
  • p0921

    p0921

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p3958

    p3958

    • ARTIST: Alessandro Sanquirico (Italy, 1777-1849)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The cruise in Egypt (Il crociato in Egitto) by Giacomo Meyerbeer at the Scala di Milano
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1828
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • s3210

    s3210

    • TITLE OF WORK: The welcomed one (La bien vennue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1808
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 33 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p5843

    p5843

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bourrée d'Auvergne dance - Auvergne (Bourrée d'Auvergne - Auvergne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p9037

    p9037

    • TITLE OF WORK: A charity ball at the imperial Opera House in Berlin (Ein Subscriptionsball im k. Opernhause in Berlin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.8 x 23.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s1776

    s1776

    • ARTIST: Matvei Chichkov (Russia, 1832-1897)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for act 3 of the ballet "La belle au bois dormant" (Sleeping beauty")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1889
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s3242

    s3242

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Mardi Gras dance (Une danse du Mardi gras)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1930
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s3740

    s3740

    • ARTIST: Francesco Allegrini (Italy, 1624-1679
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nymphs dancing to the music of the satyrs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, blackened on the verso, in an inscribed oval
    • DATE: 1670
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 20.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round, circle
  • p3751

    p3751

    • ARTIST: Aurelio Arteta (Spain, 1879-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Romeria (Romeria)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 170 x 221 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, Spanish dance
  • s3058

    s3058

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vestris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1775
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p7023

    p7023

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Miss Dollar", operetta in 3 acts and 5 scenes. The ballet ("Miss Dollar", operette en 3 actes et 5 tableaux. Le ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Miss Dollar", operette de MM. Clairville et Velliq, musique de M. André Messager; Nouveau-Théâtre, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater, operetta
  • s1627

    s1627

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the "Revue Zizi Jeanmaire": La Cascade
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1972
    • COMMENTS: "Revue Zizi Jeanmaire", Ballets Roland Petit, Casino de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0152

    s0152

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Leroux (France, 1825-?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Actors on a terrace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 40.6 x 61.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: duo, stage
  • p8879

    p8879

    • ARTIST: Zinaida Serebriakova (Russia, 1884-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Lydia Ivanova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1922
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Oriental ?
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p5207

    p5207

    • ARTIST: Louis Bouché (France, 1838-1911)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cover design for the American Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1302

    s1302

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tango lesson (La leçon de tango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 48.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p2971

    p2971

    • ARTIST: Zofia Stryjenska (Poland, 1891-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zbojnicki dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1927
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Wyd. "Galeria artystyczna" Krakow 946
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s5184

    s5184

    • ARTIST: Nicolaes Berchem (Netherlands, 1620?-1683)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Landscape with Bertheim Castle (Landschaft mit Schloss Bertheim)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on vanvas (Leinwand)
    • DATE: 1656
    • DIMENSIONS: 146 x 212,5 cm
    • COMMENTS: signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Iatly
    • DANCE FORM: traditional

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