Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3088

    s3088

    • ARTIST: Serge Lifar (Ukraine, 1905-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a ballet dancer of the 18th century
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0606

    s0606

    • ARTIST: Balliol Salmon (U.K., 1868-1953) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Charing Cross Hospital ball at the Albert Hall: The Puritan Quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 28.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille, ballroom
  • p3261

    p3261

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Composition after "ballon" and "élévation" (Composition d'après "ballon" et "élévation")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1952
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4848

    p4848

    • ARTIST: József Pollencig
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grand ball at His Royal Highness the Palatine's Palace (Grosser Ball bey Sr. Königl. Hoheit des Palatins, Ofen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1795
    • COMMENTS: Ofen den 11. von Februar 1795
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Buda
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p2887

    p2887

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miniature painting, India
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p8266

    p8266

    • ARTIST: Joseph Watter (Germany, 1838-1913) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A scene from the play "What we want" by J. Schmid (Scene aus den Festspiel "Was wir wollen" von J. Schmid)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.4 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s5309

    s5309

    • ARTIST: Zofia Stryjenska (Poland, 1891-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sobotka, pattern on the pads (Sobotka, wzor na klocki)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.8 x 28.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p1178

    p1178

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three female dancers (Trois danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 46 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Estimated 1 to 1.5 million dollars at Sotheby's New York.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3860

    p3860

    • TITLE OF WORK: Votive plaque
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p2476

    p2476

    • ARTIST: François Lafon (France, 1846-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers (Danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s5322

    s5322

    • ARTIST: E. Gayac (Spain)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nude woman dancing with scarf
    • TYPE OF WORK: Divided Back
    • DATE: 0
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 14 cm
  • p4974

    p4974

    • ARTIST: José Clemente Orozco (Mexico, 1883-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Obertura republicana"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1943
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, in 1943, for the 33rd anniversary of the Mexican Revolution; choreography by Nellie Campobello?, music by Carlos Chavez, sets and co
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p7924

    p7924

    • TITLE OF WORK: Netotiliztli. Aztec dances of pleasure and enjoyment
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1570
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
  • s2318

    s2318

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Maid 'n America": Creation
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1931
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • s2048

    s2048

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "The dancer" by George Drossinis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • s4148

    s4148

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figurine of a dancing girl looking at her lifted right arm
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, clay statuette, terracotta
    • DATE: -265
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Found in the grave of a female in Thessaloniki. Mended and partially restored. Draped in a chiton and a short himation, the dancer seems to execute a turn
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p3043

    p3043

    • ARTIST: Lucien Jacques (France, 1891-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan, dancing Brahms
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p6505

    p6505

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Madame Fuller (Loïe Fuller)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1835
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s3295

    s3295

    • ARTIST: Jacques Carrey (France, 1649-1726) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Turkish women (Danse de femmes turques)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 45 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument
  • p9639

    p9639

    • ARTIST: Hugò Scheiber (Hungary, 1873-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache, charcoal and colored crayon
    • DATE: 1945
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 26.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s3437

    s3437

    • TITLE OF WORK: French soldiers - French country people (Französ. Soldaten - französ. Landleute)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7 x 6.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Die Völker der Erde", plate 9/6
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military, violin
  • s5786

    s5786

    • TITLE OF WORK: Five female dancers held by the waist and flutist. Black-figure skyphos vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure skyphos vase
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Sketch by Agnès Irigoyen. Attic style
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica
    • DANCE FORM: women, round
  • s4082

    s4082

    • TITLE OF WORK: A line of dancers decorating a textile
    • TYPE OF WORK: Textile
    • DATE: 450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From Antinoe, Egypt
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Ancient, Byzantium,
  • s4939

    s4939

    • ARTIST: Giovanbattista Balbi or Giovanni Battista Balbi (Italy, ?-1657)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet of the ostrich (Balletti d'invenzione nelle finta pazza - Le ballet des autruches)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1645
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p4044

    p4044

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for a dancer as Harlequin (Etude pour une danseuse en Arlequin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1884
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.1 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Original in red brownish wax
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2817

    p2817

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyeff in the ballet by S. Prokofieff "Romeo and Juliet"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
    • DATE: 1966
    • COMMENTS: Royal Ballet of England. Athens, Herodus Atticus Theater, 14/06/1966.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3234

    s3234

    • ARTIST: George Heriot (U.K., 1759-1839)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The circle dance (La danse ronde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1807
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0692

    p0692

    • ARTIST: Grévin (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the Bal Mabille (Au Bal Mabille)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1893
    • COMMENTS: First published in the Journal Amusant 18/07/1863.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p7390

    p7390

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for "Round dance" (Studie zum "Reigen")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1897
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 90 x 134.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3433

    s3433

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p0457

    p0457

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p6512

    p6512

    • ARTIST: Charles Maurin (France, 1856-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1897
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p0805

    p0805

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Spring Massacre (Le Massacre du Printemps)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored, caricature
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The ballet "Le sacre du printemps" was first presented on 29/05/1913, arousing a great sensation. Music by Igor Stravinski, choreography by Nijinski.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • p5426

    p5426

    • ARTIST: Simon "Soliko" Virsaladze (Georgia, 1909-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the dance "Celebration of gathering the crop" 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, folk
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5144

    s5144

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and musicians under an awning (Danseuses et musiciens sous un auvent)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Gouache sur papier
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 27.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Delhi
  • s3055

    s3055

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Lancret (France, 1690-1743) (painting); L. Cars (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Camargo dancing (Mlle Camargo dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print after a painting
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: As Casanova writes in his Memoires, "Camargo was the first ballerina who dared jump; before her ballerinas did not jump"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
    • KEYWORDS: flute, drum
  • s1270

    s1270

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Liturgie": A Saint
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 7.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: This work shows influence from El Greco and the Cubists
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: religion, costume,
  • p0130

    p0130

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Engelmann (Germany, 1788-1839)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance at Benisouef (Une danse à Benisouef)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Benisouef is a region and a city in the south of Cairo, Egypt.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p1823

    p1823

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The hands of Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0163

    s0163

    • ARTIST: Anton Jahn (Germany, 1810-1841)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Monkey dance (Affentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1838
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 x 62 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: animal, monkey
  • p4690

    p4690

    • ARTIST: Anton Möller (Germany, 1563-1611)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance, accompanied by fiddlers (Tanz, von Geigern begleitet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1587
    • COMMENTS: The gentlemen use a "pas tendu", typical of Polish dances
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p8396

    p8396

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches in Japan: The theatre at Osaka
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s5540

    s5540

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume for Mademoiselle Lany as Sultana in "Act turc" of the opera-ballet "L'Europe galante" by André Capra
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor
    • DATE: 1764
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ottoman, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4653

    p4653

    • TITLE OF WORK: Patrician wedding dance (Patrizischer Hochzeitstanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, watercolored in blue and grey
    • DATE: 1630
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.5 x 51.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: In the great hall of the City Hall of Nürnberg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s4400

    s4400

    • 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
  • s1903

    s1903

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924) (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Scéhérazade": Negrillon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Léon Bakst dans le Ballet Russe" by Jacques-Emile Blanche
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2255

    s2255

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff in "Tanz des barocken Bacchus", Münchener Pressefest 1913 - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p0833

    p0833

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers practicing (Danseurs en exercice)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
  • p4083

    p4083

    • ARTIST: Pieter de Bloot (Netherlands, 1601-1658)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the inn (Tanz in der Herberge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1645
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1211

    p1211

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers (Los danzantes) II
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, stone
    • DATE: 300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 200 cm height approximately
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Mexico
    • KEYWORDS: Monte Alban, Aztec

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