Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p2648

    p2648

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Acrobatisches Tanzpaar (Acrobatic dance couple)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink, over pencil
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.8 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p9976

    p9976

    • ARTIST: Godward
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p3449

    p3449

    • ARTIST: Michail Dobrov (Russia)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing - 4
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, solo, female
  • p1501

    p1501

    • ARTIST: Spyros Vassiliou (Greece, 1902-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oath of the Styx (Stygos orkos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1942
    • COMMENTS: This engraving illustrates specific verses from the poem. From the handwritten edition of "Akritika" by Angelos Sikelianos
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
  • p3281

    p3281

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance with yellow mantel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on white paper
    • DATE: 1979
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.3 x 26.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • s5764

    s5764

    • TITLE OF WORK: Group of dancers accompanying a basket bearer (Groupe de danseuses accompagnant une canéphore)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.2 x 13 x 16.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Made in Canosa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: processional
    • KEYWORDS: basket
  • s0480

    s0480

    • ARTIST: A. Lewin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures of the gavotte-quadrille (Die Touren der Gavotte-Quadrille): Balancé à la gavotte
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, gavotte, quadrille
  • p2484

    p2484

    • ARTIST: Eugenio Pianta (drawing); Barozzi (lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Amalia Brugnoli Samengo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1837
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.5 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Venice
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1309

    s1309

    • ARTIST: Aubrey Hammond (U.K., 1894-1940) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Make the farmer shake his hips"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s1628

    s1628

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the "Revue Zizi Jeanmaire": La Sultane au Ruban Bleu
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1972
    • COMMENTS: "Revue Zizi Jeanmaire", Ballets Roland Petit, Casino de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4320

    p4320

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Schéhérazade": Almée
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gold paint on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 35 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7368

    p7368

    • ARTIST: Melton Prior (U.K., 1845-1910) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Presentation of an address from Moollah Ismail and the Suratee Community
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 23.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Visit of the Viceroy of India in Burmah
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burma, U.K., India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3888

    s3888

    • ARTIST: Boris Bernstein
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff in "Pavane Royale"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pochoir
    • DATE: 1949
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p5452

    p5452

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figure of the pastourelle. Figure of the quadrille (Figure de la pastourelle. Figure de quadrille)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p2282

    p2282

    • TITLE OF WORK: Creole dance in Cumana (Danse créole à Cumana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: South America
  • s0263

    s0263

    • ARTIST: Hal Ludlow (U.K., 1861-1925) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Highland Ball at Willis's Rooms
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.7 x 23.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: A ball for the benefit of the Gaelic Society of Scotland
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: ball,
  • p0016

    p0016

    • ARTIST: Charles Vernier (France, 1813-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The balls of Paris - "Mabille" (Les bals de Paris - "Mabille")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p4413

    p4413

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Mouvement antique (Ancient movement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p4368

    p4368

    • 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
  • p1325

    p1325

    • ARTIST: Franz Schrotzberg (Austria, 1811-1889)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Fanny Elssler
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p6666

    p6666

    • ARTIST: André Rouveyre (France, 1879-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ida Rubinstein in "Helen of Sparta" (Ida Rubinstein dans "Hélène de Sparte")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1172

    s1172

    • ARTIST: Romaine Walker
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Sylvia Hobday
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1926
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, 1926
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • s1283

    s1283

    • ARTIST: Jean-Louis Forain (France, 1852-1931) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A female dancer (Une danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 7.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p0504

    p0504

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 7.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, stage, solo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p8842

    p8842

    • TITLE OF WORK: Theater manager examining a ballet dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, management
  • p2898

    p2898

    • ARTIST: Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (France, 1784-1845) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Saltarello dance (Le Saltarello. Il saltarello. El saltarin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 12.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Plate 8/83 from an unidentified work
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, saltarello
  • p8956

    p8956

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le dieu bleu": Bayadère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and silver on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1511

    p1511

    • ARTIST: Louis Berthommé Saint-André (France, 1905-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival in a clearing (Fête dans la clairière)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p7740

    p7740

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Lacauchie (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Adeline Plunkett
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1854
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s5416

    s5416

    • ARTIST: Alexander Archipenko (Ukraine, 1887-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Blue dancer (Blaue Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1966
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p1217

    p1217

    • ARTIST: Michael Wolgemut (Germany, 1434-1519)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Image of Death (Imago mortis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1492
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: macabre, death
    • KEYWORDS: death
  • s2861

    s2861

    • ARTIST: Alfredo Edel (Italy, 1856-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume designs for the ballo "Amor" by Luigi Manzotti
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1886
    • COMMENTS: Reproduced in a series of figures for a prize competition
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • p2263

    p2263

    • ARTIST: Adriaen Jansz van Ostade (Netherlands, 1610-1685)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A couple dancing to the music of a violinist and other boors merry making in a barn interior
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1665
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 40.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Auctioned in Amsterdam on 10/11/1997, estimate NLG 25,000-35,000.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s4065

    s4065

    • TITLE OF WORK: Prince Albert Victor opening the Citizens' Ball with Mrs. Cochrane
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 13.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Ireland, Dublin
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s3831

    s3831

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saturday 22 jully. Sidonie Rochon Company Anonymous "Chronicle of gravel", presented at Alyscamps (2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7725

    p7725

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Spirit of the mountains", grand ballet by Horschelt. The letter scene ("Der Berggeist", grosses Ballet von Horschelt. Die Brief Scene)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1829
    • COMMENTS: Revival of the ballet with Fanny Elssler, with the original scene designs by Mathias Gail and Hermann Neefe, and costumes by Lucca Piazza
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8753

    p8753

    • ARTIST: Charles Vernier (France, 1813-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The polka (La polka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: polka, ballroom, couple
  • p2413

    p2413

    • ARTIST: Karl Arnold (Germany, 1883-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Let us build monuments! (Lasst uns Denkmäler bauen!). Salome.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink brush
    • DATE: 1932
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: Salome
  • p2936

    p2936

    • ARTIST: Etienne Dinet (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Girls singing and dancing (Jeunes filles chantant et dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 49.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1902
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Morocco,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo, Oriental
  • p1032

    p1032

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Acrobatic dancer (Danseuse acrobate)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph in sanguine
    • DATE: 1931
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 29.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Sketches executed for an album to be called "Danseuses acrobates" with texts by Colette, that was never published. Catalog no. 416.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p4677

    p4677

    • ARTIST: Reinier Vinkeles (Netherlands, 1741-1816)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The beautiful ball. Detail (Het prachtige Bal. Detail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1768
    • DIMENSIONS: 43.6 x 36.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: In the "saal van het Stadhuis" of Amsterdam, called today "Paleis op de Dam" the government of the city gave a ball on 02/06/1768 on the occasion of the visit of Willem V and the princess Wilhelmina o
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p7128

    p7128

    • TITLE OF WORK: Thornway and the businessman (Thornway und der Geschäftsmann)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 18.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for a novel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3644

    s3644

    • ARTIST: Lucy Kieselhausen (Austria, 1897-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Silhouette of Cecilie Stoeckel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p8188

    p8188

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne": An Old Crippled Man
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Le tricorne"; first performed at the Alhambra Theatre, London, on 22/07/1919. Distribution: Léonide Massine (The miller), Tamara Karsavina (The miller's wife), Léon Woizikowsky (The corregidor
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6161

    p6161

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s2879

    s2879

    • ARTIST: Edmond Morin (France, 1824-1882) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chatelet Theater - "Salvator Rosa", a drama in five acts and six scenes, by Mr. Ferdinand Dugué (Théâtre du Chatelet - "Salvator Rosa", drame en cinq actes et six tableaux, de M. Ferdinand Dugué)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: stage, popular
    • KEYWORDS: masked
  • s2244

    s2244

    • ARTIST: Erwin Lang (Austria, 1886-1962) (drawing & engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grete Wiesenthal - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood engraving
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.4 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p1130

    p1130

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p0903

    p0903

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers at rest (Deux 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
  • p9660

    p9660

    • ARTIST: Antonio Zucchi (Italy, 1726-1795)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Graces
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 111 x 94 cm each
    • COMMENTS: A pair of oval paintings
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity

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