TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le dieu bleu": Porteur d'objets pour sacrifice (Sacrificial bearer)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache heightened with gold paint over pencil
DATE: 1911
DIMENSIONS: 28 x 23 cm
COMMENTS: "Le dieu bleu", ballet. Choreography by Fokine, music by Reynaldo Hahn, libretto by Jean Cocteau, costumes and decor by Leon Bakst. First performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Chat
COMMENTS: Egyptians believed the pygmies possessed divine qualities and called their performances "dances of the gods." A young Egyptian woman named Hepy was given an automaton consisting of a board with pygmy
TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les fâcheux"
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
DATE: 1924
COMMENTS: "Les fâcheux", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, Paris, 1924. Music by G. Auric; story by B. Kochno, from the comedy-ballet of Molière; choreography by B. Nijinska; décors and costumes by Georg
TITLE OF WORK: Dance amusement in an entertainment haus of Hasenheide near Berlin (Tanzbelustigung in einem Vergnügungslokal der Hasenheide bei Berlin)
TITLE OF WORK: Revolt of the Sioux Indians in North America. The Spirits' Dance by the Ogallala Sioux at "Pine Ridge Agency", territory of Dakota
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1890
DIMENSIONS: 22 x 32 cm
COMMENTS: The revolt of the Sioux Indians, in North America. The dance of the Spirits by the Ogallala Sioux at "Pine Ridge Agency", territory of Dakota
COMMENTS: Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky, choreography by N. Kirsanova and E. Tsoukala, ballet of the Greek National Lyric Scene. Athens, National Lyric Scene, 09/01/1963.
ARTIST: Christian Gottfried Donatius (Germany, 1783-1790) & Ludewig Suhl (Germany, 1753-1819)
TITLE OF WORK: The death dance after a 320 year old painting in Saint Mary church of Lübeck (Der Todtentanz nach einem 320 Jahre alten Gemaehlde in der St. Marienkirche zu Lübeck)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper
DATE: 1783
DIMENSIONS: 26.4 x 32.1 cm
COMMENTS: A series of 8 copper prints glued together
TITLE OF WORK: The reconstitution of the Tertre Square in Montmartre, with its old houses, its planted plot with trees, and its sidewalks full of tables
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1933
DIMENSIONS: 11.3 x 33.1 cm
COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le nouveau décor des nuits parisiennes" by Robert de Beauplan