Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p6966

    p6966

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a Greek dancer (Grecque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Costume designed for Noverre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5664

    s5664

    • ARTIST: Niobid Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flutist and young women dancing. Satyrs dancing on the other side. Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, red-figured calyx-krater vase
    • DATE: -455
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 49 cm height; 50 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: Made in Attica, found in Altamura, Bari, Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • s5287

    s5287

    • TITLE OF WORK: Our colonies (Unsere Kolonien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1938
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the German colonies in Africa. Kaiser's Wochenkalender.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Africa, German colonies
    • DANCE FORM: female, traditional
  • p9363

    p9363

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sailors' ball in Havre (Matrosenball in Havre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 19.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: navy
  • s6055

    s6055

    • ARTIST: Proto Panaetian Group Painters (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: B: Komos, youths, one with pointed amphora, one with ladle, pointed amphora on stand
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup, vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • s3995

    s3995

    • ARTIST: Francis Smith (Portugal, 1881-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Popular ball (Le bal populaire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 39 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Portugal
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p5925

    p5925

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ceremony in the court
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on ceramic tile
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p3976

    p3976

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance master (Maître de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache and India ink
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 45 x 26.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s0036

    s0036

    • ARTIST: W. E. Vizkeleti
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Gypsy dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 99.1 x 139.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular
  • p4923

    p4923

    • TITLE OF WORK: Madness. Tango. Music by A. Guerama, lyrics by A. Caro (Locura. Tango. Musica de A. Guerama, letra de A. Caro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular,
  • p7170

    p7170

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lady of the gentry dancing (Femme de qualité dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1694
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p0245

    p0245

    • ARTIST: Adolphe Leleux (France, 1812-1891) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the vicinity of the Black Forest (Danses dans les environs de la Forêt-Noire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Salon de 1846
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Black Forest, Schwartzwald
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1270

    p1270

    • TITLE OF WORK: Babur celebrates in Kabul the birth of Humayun
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 28 cm
    • COMMENTS: Babur-Nama manuscript
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Afghanistan, Kabul
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p0614

    p0614

    • TITLE OF WORK: Esmeralda
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • p4418

    p4418

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Déchainement I
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2268

    p2268

    • ARTIST: William Turner Dannat (U.S.A., 1853-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Panaderos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1893
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s3336

    s3336

    • ARTIST: Théodore Deck (France, 1823-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tanagra
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, faience émaillée, statuette
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by the dances of Loïe Fuller and Greek Tanagra statuettes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p1402

    p1402

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance couple (Tanzpaar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 91 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, music-hall
  • s0842

    s0842

    • TITLE OF WORK: The reception of Sir Baldwin Griffith, K.C.M.G., the new governor of the Gold Coast, at Cape Coast Castle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ghana, Gold Coast
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, male
    • KEYWORDS: drum, flag, trumpet
  • p9644

    p9644

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Zimmer (Germany, 1853-1937)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girls (Tanzende Mädchen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1896
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 57 x 43 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed "Düsseldorf"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Düsseldorf
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, couple
  • p5613

    p5613

    • ARTIST: Piervittori (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Hours (La danza delle ore)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Italy, Bevagna, Teatro Torti, ceiling
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Antiquity
  • s6082

    s6082

    • ARTIST: The Painter of Berlin 2268 (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A,B: Komos, youths, with drinking horn, skyphoi, wineskin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup, vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p4278

    p4278

    • TITLE OF WORK: Processional dance by five girls
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on clay
    • DATE: -1280
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Minoan period
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p8212

    p8212

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Frontcloth design for the ballet "L'étrange farandole"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1938
    • COMMENTS: First performed at the théâtre de Monte-Carlo on 11/05/1939 as "Rouge et noir", then at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on 28/10/1939 as "L'étrange farandole"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s3941

    s3941

    • ARTIST: Ernst Oppler (Germany, 1867-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina (Colombine) with Vaslav Nijinsky (Arlequin) at her feet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 16.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
  • p5046

    p5046

    • TITLE OF WORK: Excelllent "Quina Laroche", Caroline Otero (Otéro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 13.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Advertisement for the drink "Quina Laroche"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: Otero
  • s2413

    s2413

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ancient Greek dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1953
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Revival
    • DANCE FORM: scenic
  • p1176

    p1176

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anita as oriental dancer (Anita en Almée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 195 x 114 cm
    • COMMENTS: Auctionned at Sotheby's New York on 09/11/1995. Estimated at 1.5 to 2 million dollars.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p0572

    p0572

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clotilde & Alexandre Sakharoff (Sacharoff)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
    • KEYWORDS: free
  • p5045

    p5045

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Bac (France, 1859-1952)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller. Folies-Bergère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1891
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p2307

    p2307

    • ARTIST: Edgard Derouet (France, 1910-2001)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Willy Forst in "Opérette" (Willy Forst dans Opérette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1941
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Poster for the Austrian film, directed by Willy Forst, starring Willy Forst and Maria Holst.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p6179

    p6179

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8985

    p8985

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Schäffler dance in Munich (Der Schäfflertanz in München)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.3 x 23.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p6838

    p6838

    • ARTIST: Karl Frölich
    • TITLE OF WORK: Original silhouette (Originalsilhouette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 19.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6885

    p6885

    • ARTIST: Georges Lepape (France, 1887-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From a ball in the Moulin de la Galette
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil
    • DATE: 1907
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
  • p2532

    p2532

    • ARTIST: Max Lenz (Austria, 1860-1948)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A life (Ein Leben)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: allegory
  • p1620

    p1620

    • ARTIST: Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tablao flamenco
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1987
    • DIMENSIONS: 207 x 290 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Colombia
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, popular
  • p6219

    p6219

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, statuette
    • DATE: -2500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Harappa culture. Found in Mohendscho Daro, India
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • p5417

    p5417

    • TITLE OF WORK: Jean Bercher, alias Dauberval (Jean Bercher, dit Dauberval)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Maître de ballet au Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1850

    p1850

    • ARTIST: Anders Osterlind (France, 1887-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s5612

    s5612

    • ARTIST: The Pistias Class (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Women dancing with krotala between palmettes. Skyphos, Pistian.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, terracotta black-figure vase
    • DATE: -415
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 11.5cm
    • COMMENTS: Both sides show women dancing with krotala between palmettes.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p1286

    p1286

    • ARTIST: Alexander Rodtchenko (Russia, 1891-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on plywood
    • DATE: 1917
    • DIMENSIONS: 44 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
  • p8362

    p8362

    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman of the seraglio (Femme du séra?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1782
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s3159

    s3159

    • ARTIST: Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Danseur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and sanguine on paper
    • DATE: 2001
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 x 29 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Colombia
    • DANCE FORM: modern, theatrical, solo
  • p1605

    p1605

    • ARTIST: Fortunato Depero (Italy, 1892-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: My plastic ballets
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 189 x 180 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • p5557

    p5557

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from a medieval mummers' play
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s2597

    s2597

    • ARTIST: L. Crépon (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance of the rice (Danse de la ronde du riz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.6 x 23.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le Japon" by Aimé Humbert, 1863-1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p3571

    p3571

    • ARTIST: V. T. Maldupe
    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival celebration (Prazdnik)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 115 x 130 cm
    • COMMENTS: Riga
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s3937

    s3937

    • ARTIST: Barry Flanagan (U.K., 1941-2009)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky hare
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1985
    • DIMENSIONS: 2,615 x 1,600 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p6994

    p6994

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scenes from the ballet "La belle au bois dormant"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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