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ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1920
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Spain
DANCE FORM: modern, solo
KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
s4917
ARTIST: J.-M. Reschofsky
TITLE OF WORK: The Russian ballerina (La ballerine russe)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1929
DIMENSIONS: 146 x 96 cm
COMMENTS: Dated 1929
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
p7434
ARTIST: Auguste Strobl (Germany, 1807-1871)
TITLE OF WORK: Alicia Nikitina in the ballet "Les biches"
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
DATE: 1924
COMMENTS: Ballets Russes. Auctioned at Sotheby's
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Hungary
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p1029
ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
TITLE OF WORK: Dancer lying down (Danseuse étendue)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
DATE: 1927
DIMENSIONS: 25.3 x 42 cm
COMMENTS: Signed in pencil and numbered. Plate 97 or 90 from the series "Dix danseuses", published by Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, 1927.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
KEYWORDS: off-stage
p8524
TITLE OF WORK: The death of Giselle (Carlotta Grisi) in the ballet "Giselle", act 1
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1868
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: In the original version of the ballet, with Carlotta Grisi and Lucien Petipa
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
s5975
TITLE OF WORK: Two bearded men dancing.
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, vase
DATE: -510
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
COMMENTS: Same scene on both sides
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
p3031
ARTIST: Olaf Gulbransson (Norway, 1873-1958)
TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Caricature
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1905
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.S.A., Norway
DANCE FORM: modern
KEYWORDS: humor, Isadora Duncan, caricature, cartoon
s3306
ARTIST: Fernand Sabatté (France, 1874-1940)
TITLE OF WORK: Modern Terpsichore (Terpsichore moderne)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
DATE: 1897
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
DANCE FORM: modern, solo
KEYWORDS: veils, draperies
p0918
ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
TITLE OF WORK: Three dancers at rest (Trois danseurs au repos)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
DATE: 1925
DIMENSIONS: 35 x 25 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Monaco, Monte Carlo
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p6133
ARTIST: Jean Carzou or Karnik Zouloumian (France, 1907-2000)
TITLE OF WORK: Janine Charrat
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1967
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p7160
TITLE OF WORK: Maria Taglioni as "Aglaë" with the Faun
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
DATE: 1840
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p3999
ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
TITLE OF WORK: Little girl training at the barre (Petite fille s'exerçant à la barre)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal heightened with white on rose paper
DATE: 1879
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 31 x 29.3 cm
COMMENTS: Inscribed "bien accuser l'os du coude" and "battements à la seconde à la barre"
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p9977
ARTIST: Jean-Antoine Watteau (France, 1684-1721) (circle of)
TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1720
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 80.5 x 99.6 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: court, couple
s1100
TITLE OF WORK: Juvenile ball at the Mansion-house on Twelfth-night
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1859
DIMENSIONS: 35 x 23.5 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, round
KEYWORDS: child
p0780
TITLE OF WORK: Round dance (Ronde)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, ivory
DATE: 1350
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Archives d'Art et d'Histoire
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: traditional, round
p1633
ARTIST: Rudolf Belling (Germany, 1886-1972)
TITLE OF WORK: Group dance (Gruppe Tanz)
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
DATE: 1917
p1522
ARTIST: Simon Joseph Simon-Auguste (France, 1909-1987)
TITLE OF WORK: The ball (Le bal)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1977
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: popular
p7045
TITLE OF WORK: The Fiji Archipelago. Feast of the natives (L'archipel des Fidji. Une fête indigène)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1876
DIMENSIONS: 17.2 x 22.5 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Fiji
DANCE FORM: traditional
s3439
TITLE OF WORK: Raymonda. State Academic Ballet Theater
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, badge
DATE: 1985
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 3.1 x 3.2 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Saint Petersburg
DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
s2431
TITLE OF WORK: Angel dancing before an Archangel
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
DATE: 1650
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
DANCE FORM: traditional
KEYWORDS: religion
s0091
ARTIST: Dettmann, L. (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: Sacrificial dance of the Shulis in Castan's Panopticum at Berlin (Opfertanz der Schulis in Castan's Panoptikum zu Berlin)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1892
DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 18.4 cm
COMMENTS: The Shulis live along the Nile, around Unjoro
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Sudan, Germany, Berlin
DANCE FORM: traditional
KEYWORDS: weapon
s4854
TITLE OF WORK: Divinity, possibly dancing
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, pottery, painted
DATE: -4000
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Ancient
KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
p5139
ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
TITLE OF WORK: "Symphony variations" pre-view, dress rehearsal. Ballet by Frederick Ashton
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1946
COMMENTS: Music by César Franck
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p6005
ARTIST: Alfons Biehsz (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: The festival at Stadtmeierhof on 5 September (Das Volksfest im Stadtmeierhofe am 5. September)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1886
DIMENSIONS: 23.2 x 35 cm
COMMENTS: Die Feier der Eroberung von Ofen in Budapest
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Budapest
DANCE FORM: popular
p2443
ARTIST: August Macke (Germany, 1887-1914)
TITLE OF WORK: Russian Ballet I (Russisches Ballett I)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on pappe
DATE: 1912
DIMENSIONS: 102 x 79 cm
COMMENTS: A scene from the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
s5964
TITLE OF WORK: Dancing, palm-bearing women
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure vase
DATE: -720
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
p8363
TITLE OF WORK: In Russia - The little-Russian dance (En Russie - La danse petite-russienne)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
DATE: 1894
DIMENSIONS: 29.7 x 22 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
DANCE FORM: traditional
p3592
ARTIST: Luca della Robbia (Italy, 1399-1482)
TITLE OF WORK: Children dancing
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
DATE: 1600
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Une Formella della Cantoria di Luca della Robbia
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Florence
KEYWORDS: child
s2656
ARTIST: Ameler (sketch); Jules Rigo (France, 1810-1892) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: Arab dance (Danse arabe)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
DATE: 1858
DIMENSIONS: 12 x 16.7 cm
COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by Mac Vernoll
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Tunisia
DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
KEYWORDS: duel, competition
p0982
ARTIST: Paul Destez (France, 1851-1919) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: The Thursday evening ball at the "Grenouillère" (Le bal du jeudi soir à la "Grenouillère")
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1885
DIMENSIONS: 22 x 30 cm
COMMENTS: Les environs de Paris (The Paris suburbs)
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
DANCE FORM: popular
KEYWORDS: suburb
p8704
ARTIST: Smyth (engraving)
TITLE OF WORK: New pas de quatre, by Mdlles. Taglioni, C. Grisi, L. Grahn and Cerito, at Her Majesty's Theatre
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1845
DIMENSIONS: 15 x 21.5 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Italy, London
DANCE FORM: ballet, pas-de-quatre
s5466
ARTIST: Wladyslaw Teodor Benda (Poland, 1873-1948)
TITLE OF WORK: Polish dance Krakowiak
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel and colored crayon on cardboard
DATE: 1930
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 25 x 40 inches
COMMENTS: Signed: W.T. Benda
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
DANCE FORM: traditional, Krakowiak
s5485
ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
TITLE OF WORK: Irène Lidova
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1946
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
DANCE FORM: ballet
KEYWORDS: portrait
p1424
ARTIST: Erich Heckel (Germany, 1883-1970)
TITLE OF WORK: Four dancers in black (Vier Tänzerinnen in Schwarz)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, feather, wax chalks
DATE: 1911
DIMENSIONS: 9 x 14 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
DANCE FORM: music-hall
p4096
ARTIST: Cornelis van Poelenburgh (Netherlands, 1594-1667)
TITLE OF WORK: Triumph of Amor
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1630
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
KEYWORDS: child
s4552
TITLE OF WORK: Couple de paysans dansant sur un tertre
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on ceramic, salad bowl in faience
DATE: 1850
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 38 cm diam.
COMMENTS: Manufacture in Nevers
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, couple
s2206
ARTIST: Harold Osman Kelly (U.S.A., 1884-1955)
TITLE OF WORK: Ohio barn dance
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
DATE: 1900
DATE DETAILS: approx.
COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in the artist's first personal exhibition
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
DANCE FORM: round, circular, circle
KEYWORDS: men, women, musicians
p0574
ARTIST: Jean Prud'hon (after Coeuré)
TITLE OF WORK: Marie Gardel in "Psyché"
TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
DATE: 1790
COMMENTS: After the French Revolution ballerinas adopted very scarse costumes ("almost naked" wrote Noverre).
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p8057
ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
TITLE OF WORK: Serge Diaghilev in bed studying the musical score for "Renard"
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
DATE: 1929
DIMENSIONS: 25 x 34 cm
COMMENTS: Initialed and inscribed "S. de Diaghilev Grand Hôtel Paris 1929"
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
KEYWORDS: management
p3862
ARTIST: Valentine Lecomte (France, 1872-?)
TITLE OF WORK: Studies of Isadora Duncan dancing (2)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
DATE: 1915
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
DANCE FORM: modern
KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
p5495
ARTIST: Smyth (engraving)
TITLE OF WORK: Pas-de-quatre, danced by M. Taglioni, C. Grisi, L. Grahn and F. Cerrito at the Court Theater in London
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1845
DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 22 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Denmark, Italy
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
s1973
ARTIST: Jerry M. Halsor (U.S.A., 19??-)
TITLE OF WORK: Rapture
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, patina
DATE: 1990
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 58.4 cm height
COMMENTS: Numbered 22
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
p3809
TITLE OF WORK: The bourrée dance called "Soupe aux choux" in the Auvergne (La bourrée "Soupe aux choux" en Auvergne)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1950
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: folk, bourée
s1280
ARTIST: Frank Dadd (U.K., 1851-1929) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: The Spanish-american War. Reinforcements for Manila: Spanish soldiers on board the "Jota"
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1898
DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 22.7 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
KEYWORDS: military, guitar, tambourine, ship, sea
s5509
ARTIST: Luigi Bienaimé (Italy, 1795-1878)
TITLE OF WORK: Bacchante dancing
TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble
DATE: 1840
DATE DETAILS: approx.
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
s0802
ARTIST: George Housman Thomas (U.K., 1824-1868) (painting); William L. Thomas (U.K., 1830-1900) (engraving)
TITLE OF WORK: A scene in French life
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1856
DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 23.5
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
DANCE FORM: polka, ballroom
KEYWORDS: invitation, music, military
p3394
ARTIST: Hendrik Paulides (Netherlands, 1892-1967)
TITLE OF WORK: A Jawanese dancer
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pencil, black ink and watercolor on board
DATE: 1924
DIMENSIONS: 68.5 x 51.5 cm
COMMENTS: Auctionned in Amsterdam on 17/04/1997, estimate 20,000-30,000 NLG
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia, Java
p2635
ARTIST: Eugène-Paul Mesplès (France, 1849-1924)
TITLE OF WORK: Les petites élèves de l'Opéra "?a c'est un jeté!" (The little pupils of the Opéra "This is a jeté!")
TYPE OF WORK: Painting
DATE: 1912
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
DANCE FORM: classical ballet
KEYWORDS: instruction
p5325
ARTIST: Väinö Kunnas (Finland, 1896-1929)
TITLE OF WORK: Variegated dance (Brokig dans)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1928
DIMENSIONS: 51 x 67 cm
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
DANCE FORM: popular
s0172
ARTIST: Joan Miró (Spain, 1893-1983)
TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer (Danseuse espagnole)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1945
DIMENSIONS: 146 x 114 cm
COMMENTS: Signed and dated 07/07/1945
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
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