Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p5244

    p5244

    • ARTIST: Stravinsky
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge de Diaghilev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: management
  • p6424

    p6424

    • TITLE OF WORK: He danc'd like a monkey, his pockets well cram'd...
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1781
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Caricature of Auguste Vestris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5902

    p5902

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Narcisse": Nymph
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: "Narcisse", ballet by the Ballets Russes, 1911, Théâtre du Casino, Monte Carlo. Choreography by Mikhail Fokine; music by Nikolai Tcherepnin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia, France, Monaco, Monte Carlo,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8309

    p8309

    • ARTIST: William Rimer (U.K., 1825-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Fanny Cerrito
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1855
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p9413

    p9413

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer asleep (Danseuse endormie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.8 x 45.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Plate 89 from the series "Dix danseuses", published by Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2049

    p2049

    • ARTIST: Yannis Moralis (Greece, 1916-2009)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes and stage design for the ballet "Six popular pictures" (6)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Six popular pictures" by the "Greek Choreodrama", Athens 1951. Music by Manos Hadjidakis, costumes and stage design by Yannis Moralis, choreography by Rallou Manou
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern, popular
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7173

    p7173

    • ARTIST: Thomas Gainsborough (U.K., 1727-1788)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Gaëtan Vestris (Gaetano Vestris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1782
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4349

    p4349

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer, from "Le sacre du printemps"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1567

    p1567

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance I (Tanz I)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brush, ink
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.2 x 26.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p5379

    p5379

    • ARTIST: Sérou
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge de Diaghilev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: management
  • p7538

    p7538

    • ARTIST: Carlos Enrique Pellegrini or Charles Henri Pellegrini (France, 1800-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Little sky (Cielito)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1841
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0533

    p0533

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Poussin (France, 1594-1665)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Les quatre ages de la vie, ou Les saisons (The four ages of life or The seasons)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1638
    • COMMENTS: Published by Jean Duchet
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p6308

    p6308

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Vestris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1765
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8310

    p8310

    • ARTIST: Gustave Boulanger (France, 1824-1888)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Fanny Cerrito in "Stella"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s5841

    s5841

    • TITLE OF WORK: Young men dancing (Komasts). Attic black-figure vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure vase
    • DATE: -560
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.8 cm x 16.5 diam.
    • COMMENTS: Found in Potidaia, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: satyr
  • p3970

    p3970

    • ARTIST: Paula Rego (Portugal, 1935-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing ostriches from Disney's "Fantasia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper mounted on aluminium
    • DATE: 1995
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 150 cm
    • COMMENTS: Part of a triptych
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Portugal
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5908

    s5908

    • TITLE OF WORK: Chehel Sotun Palace: Fresco depicting a banquet given by Shah Abbas II in honour of Nader-Mohammad Khan, Emir of Turkestan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on wall, fresco
    • DATE: 1630
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Three dancers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Isfahan Iran
  • p9038

    p9038

    • ARTIST: Friedrich Müller (Germany, 1749-1825) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Italian scenery (Italienische Landschaft)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • s1546

    s1546

    • ARTIST: François Stroobant (Belgium, 1819-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebrations on 24/09/1851 in Brussels - the ballroom (Fêtes du 24 Septembre à Bruxelles - La salle de bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 28.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Brussels
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p5909

    p5909

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (La danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p0195

    p0195

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Narcisse": Bacchante
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.5 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Narcisse", music by Nikolai Cherepnin, 1911, Théâtre du Casino, Monte Carlo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Antiquity, Russia, France, Monaco, Monte Carlo,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8683

    p8683

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Cake Walk as adapted to the Paris drawing-room
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s3101

    s3101

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Tchérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Movement 1 (Mouvement 1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p1375

    p1375

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cengi or Turkish dancer (Tchinguise ou danseuse turque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 19 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, Oriental
  • p5579

    p5579

    • TITLE OF WORK: Aboriginal fertility dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1849
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1245

    s1245

    • ARTIST: Maria May
    • TITLE OF WORK: A rhythm in lingerie and lace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1931
    • COMMENTS: Designed for a shop decoration in Berlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: poster
  • p9882

    p9882

    • ARTIST: François-Louis-Joseph Watteau (France, 1758-1823)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village wedding (Noce de village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p1952

    p1952

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Margot Fonteyn in the ballet "Nocturne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4796

    s4796

    • ARTIST: Rodolfo B. Feleo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, the Muslim suite: Muslim prince and princess
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, monochrome
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Philippines
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p1447

    p1447

    • ARTIST: Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (Sweden, 1911-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1981
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 86.3 x 53.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden, U.S.A.
  • p3464

    p3464

    • ARTIST: Antonin Proust (France, 1832-1905) (drawing); C. Marchand (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lent festival at the temple of Jupiter (Fête du carême au temple de Jupiter)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.4 x 23.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by A. Proust entitled "Un hiver à Athènes, 1857-1858"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • p7767

    p7767

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mechanical costume that moves by itself, designed for the ballet "The peacock", on music by Ravel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: A ballet based on "Histoires naturelles" by Renard, which was never realized
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8443

    p8443

    • ARTIST: Gioacchino Pagliei (Italy, 1852-1896) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Minuet (Menuett)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 44 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • s2481

    s2481

    • ARTIST: Otto Gerlach (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Dahomeans in the Acclimatation Garden - The war dance (Les dahoméens au Jardin d'Acclimatation - La danse de guerre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Dahomey, Benin, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, war
  • s2322

    s2322

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Rhapsody - Rymsky Korsakoff"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1932
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p5187

    p5187

    • ARTIST: Félix Comte (France, 1919-1991)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Bretagne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1963
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: folk,
  • s5658

    s5658

    • ARTIST: Oltos (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dionysos, satyrs and maenads. Pottery: red-figured kylix vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, red-figured kylix vase
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.7 cm height; 33.02 diam.
    • COMMENTS: Dionysos, satyrs and maenads; departure of Ajax. Made in Attica, found in Vulci, Lazzio, Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • p6400

    p6400

    • TITLE OF WORK: A tango step (Un pas de tango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, couple, ballroom
  • s5994

    s5994

    • ARTIST: Heine (Germany)
    • TITLE OF WORK: On the dance area. The church festival in Gross-Hessellohe (Auf dem Tanzplatze. Die Kirchweih in Gross-Hessellohe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Gross-Hessellohe
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p1959

    p1959

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pattern of dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1595

    p1595

    • ARTIST: Anton Ignaz Melling (Germany, 1763-1831) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Third view of the Bosphorus, taken at Kandilly (Troisième vue du Bosphore, prise à Kandilly)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1819
    • DIMENSIONS: 42.5 x 79.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Turkey, Istanbul, Constantinople
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9627

    p9627

    • ARTIST: Dorothea Tanning (U.S.A., 1910-2012)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango lives
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 132 x 100 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p5407

    p5407

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Lancers Quadrilles, as performed by the bands at Buckingham Palace, Almack's & the nobility's balls
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, lancers, quadrille
  • p8255

    p8255

    • ARTIST: C. Hentschel (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The "Maske of flowers" in Gray's Inn Hall. The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 18 cm
    • COMMENTS: Jubilee year of Queen Victoria; costumes of 1614; a ball given on 07/07/1887
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • s2806

    s2806

    • ARTIST: Emile Bayard (France, 1837-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peacefull encounter with the Siriniris (Entrevue pacifique avec les Siriniris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bolivia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p0489

    p0489

    • ARTIST: Karneia Painter (Greece, active around 400 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Maenads dancing in front of Dionysos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, vase, terracotta
    • DATE: -410
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 72 cm total height
    • COMMENTS: Detail from a "crater à volutes", terracotta, found in Ceglie del Campo, Apulia, Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
  • p4475

    p4475

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky - "Narcisse"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s4803

    s4803

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer and audience (Tänzerin und Zuschauer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor over pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1916
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 15.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Executed in 1916-1917
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p3953

    p3953

    • ARTIST: Joël Martel & Jean Martel, twins (France, 1896-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for the rhythm and dance school of Marie Kummer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, heightened gouache black and white
    • DATE: 1926
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 200 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p1135

    p1135

    • ARTIST: Ignaty Nivinsky (Russia, 1880-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Sold by the Galerie Petrouchka, 18 rue de Beaune, Paris 75007, for 25,000 francs.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland

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