Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p9832

    p9832

    • ARTIST: George Cruikshank (U.K., 1792-1878) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tom, Jerry et Logic à All-Max dans l'est de la ville
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.8 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2084

    p2084

    • ARTIST: Valdo Barbey (France, 1880-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Padmavati"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4496

    s4496

    • TITLE OF WORK: Line of female dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, line
  • p0386

    p0386

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Czardas dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1914
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 200 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, csardas
  • p6787

    p6787

    • ARTIST: Lily Arlioti (Greece, 1908-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rhythm (Rythmos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 160 x 90 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • s3182

    s3182

    • ARTIST: Stanley Roseman (U.S.A., 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie-Claude Pietragalla in the ballet "Le sacre du printemps"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1994
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p3814

    p3814

    • ARTIST: Juan Gorostiza Gongueta (Spain, 1897-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance step (Paso de danza)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, enamel
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 19 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque
  • p0761

    p0761

    • ARTIST: Claude Lorrain (France, 1600-1682)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Apollo and the seasons (Apollon et les saisons)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte
    • DATE: 1640
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, France
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p7755

    p7755

    • TITLE OF WORK: Clara Webster in "The beauty of Ghent"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1660

    p1660

    • ARTIST: Willem van Leusden (Netherlands, 1886-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet school
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 281 x 100 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p1791

    p1791

    • TITLE OF WORK: Terracota figurine with women dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on a figurine
    • DATE: -700
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 cm height
    • COMMENTS: From Boeotia.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p5831

    p5831

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing "La marseillaise"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1916
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7440

    p7440

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Apsara
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, sandstone
    • DATE: 1180
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 116 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Cambodia, Beng Mealea
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • p0617

    p0617

    • TITLE OF WORK: The hours that fly away (Les heures qui volent)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 8 cm
  • p8571

    p8571

    • ARTIST: Ernst Hosang (Germany, 1857-after 1884) (sketch); R. Mahn (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance entertainment on Upper Bavaria: The Kreuzschlager Dance (Tanzvergnügen in Oberbayern: Der Kreuzschlager)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.7 x 30.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Kreuzschlager, round
  • p2021

    p2021

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Beryl Gray and dancers in the ballet "Les sylphides"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7865

    p7865

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6428

    p6428

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio (Monaco, 1764-1827)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Opera ball (Le bal de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1804
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballet, ballroom
  • p4292

    p4292

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dervishes dancing. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, traditional, whirling, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s5421

    s5421

    • ARTIST: Pietro Fabris (Italy, 1740-1792)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Napoli
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, tarantella
  • s3293

    s3293

    • ARTIST: Louis-Honoré-Frédéric Gamain (France, 1803-1871)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Bambou or La Bamboula (La danse du Bambou ou La Bamboula)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Antilles, Martinique
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Bamboula
    • KEYWORDS: fire
  • p8603

    p8603

    • ARTIST: Victor-Marie-Félix Danvin (France, 1802-1842) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the primitives (Danse des naturels)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.8 x 14.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0452

    p0452

    • TITLE OF WORK: Five women and man at the end of the line. Kylix from Camiros, Rhodes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, kylix vase
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Found at Kamiros, Rhodes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: line
    • KEYWORDS: altar
  • p0738

    p0738

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tha?s
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, cold-painted bronze and ivory
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 56 cm height x 63.5 cm length
    • COMMENTS: Egyptian courtesan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, France, Romania
  • p5935

    p5935

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancing Gopis with Krishna in the center
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, palm-leaf manuscript
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s4313

    s4313

    • ARTIST: Fissario
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
  • p1956

    p1956

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Massine in the ballet "La tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3139

    s3139

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing dervish
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, lithograph
    • DATE: 1838
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Ottoman, Istanbul, Pera, Constantinople
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, traditional, solo, whirling
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s3177

    s3177

    • ARTIST: Raoul Dufy (France, 1877-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the Negresco cabaret (Au Negresco)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2703

    p2703

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village festival
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1660
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7646

    p7646

    • ARTIST: Christian Mayr (Germany, 1805?-1851)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kitchen ball at Sulphur Springs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1838
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
  • p9978

    p9978

    • ARTIST: Charles Edward Conder (U.K., 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance by the fountains
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 76 x 61 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "CONDER" at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: swing
  • p2903

    p2903

    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • s3550

    s3550

    • ARTIST: Pedro Figari (Uruguay, 1861-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Candombe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 50 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "P. Figari" at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Uruguay
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, candombe
  • s5550

    s5550

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three male dancers and musician
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on terracotta vase
    • DATE: -740
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 cm without the handles
    • COMMENTS: Cantharos vase. Beotian geometric art. Origin unknown.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Boeotia
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • p4220

    p4220

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cosacks dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2755

    s2755

    • ARTIST: Marcelin Delechaux (France, 1821-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: New step, which is not new (Pas nouveau, qui n'est pas neuf)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • p4030

    p4030

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the theater (Au théâtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 48 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lemoisne catalog number 577
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2395

    s2395

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 40
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p0818

    p0818

    • TITLE OF WORK: Charleston on the beach
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, caricature
    • DATE: 1926
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, charleston
  • s1646

    s1646

    • ARTIST: Brygos Painter (Greece, active about c. 490-470 BC) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Komos dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -480
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.6 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Attic red-figure skyphos vase
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: Komos, popular Ancient Greek dance
    • KEYWORDS: music, barbiton
  • s4167

    s4167

    • ARTIST: Jenneweiss
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance with turning dress (La danseuse à la robe tournoyante)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by a statuette by D. Chiparus with the same title
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s4698

    s4698

    • ARTIST: Raoul Dufy (France, 1877-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ancient musicians and dancers (Musiciens et danseurs antiques)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 26.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Project for a fabric, signed, stamped Bianchini-Ferier BD
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1782

    s1782

    • ARTIST: Ezio Frigerio (Italy, 1930-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant" (Sleeping beauty")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1997
    • COMMENTS: "La belle au bois dormant" (Sleeping beauty) ballet produced by Rudolf Nureiev at the Paris Opera in 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s5092

    s5092

    • ARTIST: Nils von Dardel (Sweden, 1888-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carina Ari (1897-1970), dancer, choreograph, donnor
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1936
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • p5159

    p5159

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Irina Baronova in the ballet "Choreartium" by Massine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Covent Garden, London, with Davide Lichine
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5693

    p5693

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flanders, 1525-1569) (after); Petrus A. Merica (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The wedding dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5427

    p5427

    • ARTIST: Simon "Soliko" Virsaladze (Georgia, 1909-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the dance "Celebration of gathering the crop" 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, folk
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3193

    s3193

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Attributed to Rodin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p6464

    p6464

    • TITLE OF WORK: Wine, syrtaki and imagination
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Caricature
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature

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