Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p8700

    p8700

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss A. Dumilâtre (Madlle. A. Dumilâtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: In "The marble maiden", a ballet by Mr. St. George and Mr. Albert, with Mr. Albert and Miss Adèle Dumilâtre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0917

    p0917

    • ARTIST: Maurice Denis (France, 1870-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances. Sketches for "Flonentine evening" (Danses. Esquisses pour "Soir florentin")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on paper glued on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55.5 x 103 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p9047

    p9047

    • ARTIST: Hermann Lüders (Germany, 1836-1908) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Slav Quadrille. Costumed ball in the Crown Prince's Palace of Berlin on 8 February (Die Slawische Quadrille. Der Costümball im kronprinzlichen Palais zu Berlin am 8. Februar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.2 x 18.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, quadrille
    • KEYWORDS: Slav
  • s3519

    s3519

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Léonide Massine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1954
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0927

    p0927

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in a cabaret (Tänzerin im Kabarett)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 25.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right "Nolde"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s5289

    s5289

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances of the Ruanda warriors (Danses des guerriers au Ruanda)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: La vie des peupldes congolaises.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Congo
    • DANCE FORM: male, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: spear, weapon
  • p9822

    p9822

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Death as female dancer (Der Tod als Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching and aquatint
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 26.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Second and final state
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p5198

    p5198

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance Studio Alain Bernard. International Summer Course for Dance in Bern 18-31/07/1973
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1973
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: jazz
  • p6767

    p6767

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Chinese dancer on scene (Une danseuse chinoise sur la scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 7.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: theatrical, stage
  • s5334

    s5334

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: -50
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found at Ampelokopi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient Greece
    • KEYWORDS: solo
  • p0955

    p0955

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance with banderillas (La danse aux banderilles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1954
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 64 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: Vallauris
  • p2430

    p2430

    • ARTIST: Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with tambourine (Tänzerin mit Tamburin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1946
    • DIMENSIONS: 146 x 89 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s3168

    s3168

    • ARTIST: Girardet (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Public dancer (Danseuse publique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1787
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: professional
  • p5753

    p5753

    • ARTIST: Desrais-Sarrazin
    • TITLE OF WORK: Eumenide in the ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s4397

    s4397

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on colored paper
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Grandjouan executed a great number of pastels of Isadora Duncan between 1905 and the end of the 1920s. The are untitled and undated.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p7785

    p7785

    • ARTIST: Antoine Caron (France, 1515?-1593) & Lucas de Heere (Flanders, 1534-1584) (carton)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Catherine de Medici looking at the court ball following the "Ballet of the Provinces of France". Reception of the Polish ambassadors
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1573
    • COMMENTS: Made in Anvers. Feasts at the Valois court. Catherine is dressed in black. In the "Ballet of the provinces of France" the Queen Mother and 16 other ladies danced for one hour.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p1043

    p1043

    • ARTIST: Francis Picabia (France, 1879-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances in the spring (Danses au printemps)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 120 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • p1937

    p1937

    • ARTIST: Mariano Benlliure (Spain, 1862-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s3114

    s3114

    • ARTIST: Maurice Charpentier-Mio (France, 1881-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fourteen dance movements after the "Prelude to the afternoon of a faun" (Quatorze mouvements dansées d'après le "Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, plaquette
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 27 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "Croquis/de gestes/dansés/CM/Mai 1912"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p7885

    p7885

    • 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: Painting, drawing, watercolor and pencils
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.6 x 24.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1948

    s1948

    • ARTIST: Gisèle Antoine Berthier (France, 1936-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Appasionata
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1998
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the IXème Biennale dels pintors i escultors de la dansa. Barcelona, 03/02/1999.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2570

    s2570

    • ARTIST: Louis Delaporte (France, 1842-1925) (sketch); E. Thérond (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Angcor Tom: Fragment of a low-relief from Baion (Angcor Tom: Fragment de bas-reliefs de Baion)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.8 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine" by Francis Garnier, 1866-1868
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, Angkor
    • DANCE FORM: stage, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: sculpture
  • p3782

    p3782

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchic dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.3 x 63.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s1244

    s1244

    • TITLE OF WORK: The worship of the Golden Calf
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 10.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: World finance as seen in a strictly apocalyptical League of Nations history
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s1521

    s1521

    • TITLE OF WORK: The rhythm's the thing! "His Master's Voice" electrical recordings
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, piano, advertisement
  • p9558

    p9558

    • ARTIST: René Reinicke (Germany, 1860-1926) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the ballroom (Im Ballsaal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 39.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p8498

    p8498

    • ARTIST: Carl Herpfer (Germany, 1836-1897) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pillow dance (Polstertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.4 x 41.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, couple
  • p8635

    p8635

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flanders, 1564-1638)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The indoor wedding dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel, wood
    • DATE: 1620
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 75.5 x 106.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Flanders, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p9147

    p9147

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers. Cover of the Ballets Russes program for the 1919-1920 season (Danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1919
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: program cover
  • p6575

    p6575

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the hands (La danse des mains)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p4680

    p4680

    • ARTIST: François Rousseau (Germany, 1717-1804)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masked ball in the City Theater of Bonn (Maskenball im Bonner Hoftheater)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1754
    • COMMENTS: One of a series of 4 paintings
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p5254

    p5254

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "La création du monde" by the Ballets Suédois, backcloth
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: First performance by the Ballets Suédois at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, on 23/10/1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s4480

    s4480

    • ARTIST: José Villegas y Cordero (Spain, 1848-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A mustical apparition
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 53.3 x 81.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1900
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Oriental
  • p4039

    p4039

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers, two studies (Danseuses, deux études)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal heightened with white
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1162

    s1162

    • ARTIST: Alexander Gascoigne Wildey (sketch); W. Hatherell (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Carnival Ball at the Governor's Palace at Malta: The minuet dancers saluting the throne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 51.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Malta, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: minuet
  • s3426

    s3426

    • TITLE OF WORK: Processional Komos dance on a Stamnos vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: processional
    • KEYWORDS: flute, candle, vase
  • s3304

    s3304

    • ARTIST: Maurice Harvey (Canada, 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The chief's daughter: wedding dance (La Fille du Chef: danse nuptiale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood, bille de cèdre
    • DATE: 1986
    • DIMENSIONS: 195 cm height
    • COMMENTS: 1st prize at the National Exhibitor Show of Toronto, 1986
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
  • p8094

    p8094

    • TITLE OF WORK: The "onnagata" Mizuki Tatsunosuke in his famous Lance Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: kabuki
    • KEYWORDS: theater, weapon
  • p5496

    p5496

    • TITLE OF WORK: Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. Costumed ball of Queen Victoria (Prinz Albert & Königin Victoria. Der Costümball der Königin Victoria)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s5498

    s5498

    • TITLE OF WORK: Poster for "Trois siècles de danse à l'Opèra de Paris". Lycette Darsonval, Milorad Miskovitch, Jean Blanchard
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1953
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: poster
  • s3112

    s3112

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Tchérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Death, our mother (Notre mère la mort)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, trio
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s3497

    s3497

    • TITLE OF WORK: Frederico Campilli
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Choreographer Frederico Campilli was invited from Vienna to Budapest in 1847 to direct the ballet "Paquita" on music by Edouard Deldevez
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s3049

    s3049

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchic scene (Scène bacchique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Dancing maenad holding thyrsos, flutist and god Dionysos
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion, ecstasis, trance, therapy
  • s3809

    s3809

    • ARTIST: Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Relief - Couple dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze relief with brown patina
    • DATE: 1994
    • DIMENSIONS: 57.5 x 44.8 x 10.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed, numbered 2/6 and stamped FONDERIA DA PRATO
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Colombia, Bogota
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s5456

    s5456

    • ARTIST: R. M. Guillaume (France, 1893-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Interior of an artist's dressing room
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p1816

    p1816

    • ARTIST: Tatiana Bruni (Russia, 1902-2001) & Gueorgui Korchikov (Russia, 1899-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Bolt": The Japanese Fleet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache, application, paper
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 41 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2462

    s2462

    • TITLE OF WORK: Buffoon dancer with handkerchiefs and man clapping hands
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1892

    s1892

    • ARTIST: Howard K. Elcock (U.K., 19??-19??) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Empire Ball inpressions at the Guildhall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 22.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress held a reception and ball at Guildhall for Dominion and Colonial representatives and others associated with the Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7601

    p7601

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches at "Turquoisette"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1893
    • COMMENTS: "Turquoisette" or "A study in blue", a classical produced in Melbourne, Australia, on 09/09/1893
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6728

    p6728

    • ARTIST: Carlos Llobet Busquets (Spain, 1857-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La danza prima - Asturias
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance

Random image

s4515

Visits counter : 8425