Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p7430

    p7430

    • ARTIST: Charles Gleyre (Switzerland, 1806-1874)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Musicians and dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1834
    • COMMENTS: From his sketchbook no. 3, leaf 40 verso
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5192

    p5192

    • ARTIST: Jasper Johns (U.S.A., 1930-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on a plane. Merce Cunningham
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 75.9 x 60.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • p3640

    p3640

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le carnaval": Estrella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Robert Schumann
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1526

    p1526

    • ARTIST: Louis Toffoli (France, 1907-1999)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hassidic dance (Danse hassidique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Israel
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Jewish
  • p3328

    p3328

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dancer in bathing suit, lilac frame, 1-1-81
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on craft paper
    • DATE: 1981
    • DIMENSIONS: 210 x 80.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 01/01/1981
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p3870

    p3870

    • ARTIST: Pedro Figari (Uruguay, 1861-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tango (El tango). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The scene is from the painter's childhood years in Uruguay, during the years 1860-1870.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Uruguay
    • DANCE FORM: tango, popular, couple
  • s1510

    s1510

    • TITLE OF WORK: The fragile dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, porcelain
    • DATE: 1928
    • COMMENTS: Dresden china, exhibited in London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, stage
  • p6422

    p6422

    • ARTIST: Johann Georg Puschner (Germany, 1680-1749)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Venitian sailor or Gondolier… (Ein venetianischer Schifer oder Gondolieur...)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1716
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Italy
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p8300

    p8300

    • ARTIST: Francois Simoneau (Belgium, 1783-1859) (painting); G. H. Every (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Fanny Cerrito
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1843
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8916

    p8916

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le pavillon d'Armide": Red Magician
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and ink on paper
    • DATE: 1907
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4297

    p4297

    • TITLE OF WORK: Jean Dauberval, Marie Allard and Pélin in the ballet "La fille mal gardée",
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1779
    • COMMENTS: Attitudes de danse exécutées à l'Opéra par le sieur Dauberval et mesdemoiselles Allard et Pélin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2592

    p2592

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Fijian warriors
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Fiji
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3596

    s3596

    • ARTIST: Elza Köveshàzi-Kalmàr (Hungary, 1876-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance composition (Tànckompoziciò)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, alabaster
    • DATE: 1926
    • DIMENSIONS: 58.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p4133

    p4133

    • ARTIST: Joseph Anton Koch (Austria, 1768-1839)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Roman villagers dancing and playing music - Landscape at the Tiber near Rome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0244

    p0244

    • ARTIST: Auguste Nousveaux (France, 1811-1867) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negroes dancing in Government Square. Gorea Island, Senegal (Danse de Nègres sur la Place du Gouvernement, à l'île de Gorée, Sénégal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Senegal, Gorea Island
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0086

    s0086

    • ARTIST: Moritz Friedrich Schlegel (Germany, 1865-1935) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Saxon Contest in Graz: Dance of the Upper Lowlands (Die sächsischen Turner in Graz: Tanz der Oberlandler)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Graz, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p4888

    p4888

    • TITLE OF WORK: The mazurka (Die Mazurka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • COMMENTS: The figure "tour sur place" (turn on the spot) is shown.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, mazurka
  • s3251

    s3251

    • ARTIST: Frederick Simpson Coburn (Canada, 1871-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance at Joe Belair des Trois-Rivières (Danse chez Joe Belair des Trois-Rivières)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • s5020

    s5020

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
  • s5395

    s5395

    • ARTIST: Anders Zorn (Sweden, 1860-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rosita Mauri
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1891
    • KEYWORDS: Rosita Mauri
  • p1810

    p1810

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Petrouchka": Court Coachman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 23.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Russian Seasons, Paris 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4324

    p4324

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Lacauchie (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi in the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4182

    p4182

    • ARTIST: Claire-Jeanne-Roberte Colinet (France, 1880-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mexican dancer (Danseuse mexicaine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p8071

    p8071

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sege Diaghilev in bed studying a musical score
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1929
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "Mars 929 M.L. Grand Hôtel Paris"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6380

    p6380

    • ARTIST: Arroyo
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Portrait of a Spanish dancer" by Joan Miro, 1921 (Le "Portrait d'une danseuse espagnole" par Joan Miro, 1921)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain, Catalonia
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • s4912

    s4912

    • ARTIST: Robert-Adrien Deletang (France, 1874-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village festival in Basque Country (Fête villageoise au Pays Basque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas mounted on carton
    • DATE: 1944
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 60 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right and dated 1944
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Basque Country
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, couple
  • p3934

    p3934

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7863

    p7863

    • 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: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2477

    p2477

    • ARTIST: François Lafon (France, 1846-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers at the fountain (Danseuses à la fontaine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p3069

    p3069

    • ARTIST: Fritz Bergen (Germany, 1857-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance on the grass
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.3 x 5.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2796

    p2796

    • ARTIST: Théophile-Louis Deyrolle (France, 1844-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gavotte Bretonne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, gavotte
  • p9872

    p9872

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colors and gold foils on paper
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 75.5 x 36.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a series of 11 sheets from a screen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
  • s3664

    s3664

    • ARTIST: H.D.
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grande Chaumière of 1842 (Grande Chaumière de 1842)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1842
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s5073

    s5073

    • ARTIST: Tórtola Valencia (Spain, 1882-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tortola Valencia - self-portrait
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1940
    • COMMENTS: From the album of autographs of Angeles Magret-Vila
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s0252

    s0252

    • TITLE OF WORK: Servians dancing the kolo in celebration of the armistice at Paratchin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 21.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: kolo, traditional
  • p3718

    p3718

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer's feet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 150
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, France
  • s4093

    s4093

    • TITLE OF WORK: The sons and daughters of Job dining. Two male dancers in the foreground
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1080
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Book of Job
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: religion, dinner
  • s2723

    s2723

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serbian national dances, no. 23
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 23
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s1130

    s1130

    • TITLE OF WORK: The devil's dance. A religious ceremony on the West coast of Africa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.4 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: This fantastic orgie was witnessed at the town of Loongi, the capital of Bullom, West Coast of Africa, by a party of officers from the West India Regiment quarterred at Sierra Leone, one of whom, Lieu
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sierra Leone, Bullom, Loongi
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, devil's dance
  • p8257

    p8257

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches from the new burlesque "Miss Esmeralda", at the Gaiety Theatre. Miss Marion Hood, Mr E. J. Lonnen, Miss F. Leslie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.8 x 24.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: humor, comedy
  • p1979

    p1979

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers under yellow light
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1811

    p1811

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Petrouchka": A Nanny
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 23.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Russian Seasons, Paris 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8945

    p8945

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Petrouchka", scene 1. "Baraques foraines à Saint Pétersbourg"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on carton
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p0895

    p0895

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman with tambourine (Femme au tambourin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, etching and aquatint
    • DATE: 1938
    • DIMENSIONS: 65.5 x 50.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • p2167

    p2167

    • TITLE OF WORK: A dinner-dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1929
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s5760

    s5760

    • TITLE OF WORK: Eros dancing. Figurine from Myrina (Eros-éphèbe dansant, Myrina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Génie ailé, Eros, qui symbolisait l'amour, fut d'abord androgyne. Il apparaît au Ve siècle avant J.-C. sous les traits d'un jeune homme nu muni d'un carquois et décochant généreusement ses flèches. A
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece,
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: Eros
  • p9823

    p9823

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, drypoint
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 45.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the "Saltimbanques suite"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
  • p2912

    p2912

    • TITLE OF WORK: Rehearsing the minuet (Répétition du menuet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.4 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Chocolat Guérin-Boutron, Paris. F. Champenois & Cie. Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, minuet
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s0512

    s0512

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690) (manner of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village dances at the outskirts of Constantinople (Danses villageoises aux environs de Constantinople)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 71 x 91 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8660

    p8660

    • ARTIST: Burford (painting); L. Uwins (drawing); Lady Louisa Tenison (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Burford's new panorama of Granada - Valley of the Darro
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood engraving
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular. traditional, couple

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