TITLE OF WORK: Three male and one female dancer. Black-figure Kantharos vase
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on clay vase
DATE: -555
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 13.3 cm diam.
COMMENTS: Found at Rhitsona, Boeotia, in a cemetery of historical times. The other side of the vase depicts three male dancers and a standing aulos-player.
TITLE OF WORK: The tragic ball at Fucecchio, Florence. The floor in fire collapses during a party (Il ballo tragico di Fucecchio, Firenze: pavimento incendiato che sprofonde durante ine festa)
COMMENTS: Manet painted the tambourines for a charity sale given in 1879 at the Hippodrome de Paris for the benefit of the victims of the floods of the town of Murcia. These were his last works.
TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La légende de Joseph": Guests
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gold on paper
DATE: 1914
COMMENTS: "La légende de Joseph", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes. Choreography by M. Fokine, music by R. Strauss, scenario by H. von Kessler and Hugo von Hoffmannssthal, scenery by J.-M. Sert, costumes
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris,
TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from the Berlin outlaw world: Carnival ball in an aoutlaw joint (Bilder aus der berliner Verbrecherwelt: Faschingsball in einem Verbrecherlokal)
TITLE OF WORK: Study for the Delhi ballerina (Etude pour la ballerine de Delhi)
TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
DATE: 1910
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 58.2 x 45 cm
COMMENTS: This is a study for a larger tempera painting. Besnard studied the exotic spectacles in India and painted the bayadères or temple dancers in Thanjavur, a transvestite male dancer at Jodhpur, the Hindu
