Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4894

    s4894

    • ARTIST: Diana Riggs
    • TITLE OF WORK: Four the dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 2004
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s5890

    s5890

    • TITLE OF WORK: Terracotta dancing doll representing a 'Pyrrhic Dancer' in helmet and cuirass
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta
    • DATE: -450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Made in Corinth, found in Athens
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Corinth
    • KEYWORDS: doll
  • s3026

    s3026

    • TITLE OF WORK: Buckingham Palace illustrated - The ball room
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 30.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military officers
  • s3335

    s3335

    • ARTIST: Théodore Deck (France, 1823-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Draped dancer (Danseuse drapée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, faience fine, statuette
    • DATE: 1909
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 18.5 x 5.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Th. Deck". Inspired by the dances of Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s1763

    s1763

    • TITLE OF WORK: The nautch Amany at the Théâtre des Variétés (La bayadère Amany au Théâtre des Variétés)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: After a statuette by Auguste Barre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
  • s0648

    s0648

    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas visitors, from my grandfather's sketches. La pastourelle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 28 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: pastourelle, ballroom
  • s5986

    s5986

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tambourine player and female dancer in green. Shah Jahan accepts tribute from vassal
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on paper, manuscript illumination, opaque colours and gold
    • DATE: 1640
    • COMMENTS: Mughal miniature from around 1640-47.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Mughal
  • p0739

    p0739

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian Ballets (Ballets Russes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze and ivory
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Group of three dancers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Romania
  • p4582

    p4582

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance around the Golden Calf
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 94.5 x 198 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion, Bible
  • s4329

    s4329

    • TITLE OF WORK: David dancing before the Arc
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From "The disrobing of Christ". Sponsa and Achior. "Weigel-Felix" biblia Pauperum
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Palestine, Israel
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p9497

    p9497

    • ARTIST: Georg Kirsta (Russia, 1890-1937)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5460

    s5460

    • ARTIST: Bernard Daydé (France, 1921-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Milorad Miskovic
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1967
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • s2242

    s2242

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Eberle (Germany, 1883-1956) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rhythm - 6 (Der Rhythmus - 6)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 11.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s5393

    s5393

    • ARTIST: Alméry Lobel-Riche (France, 1880-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two female dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, drypoint
    • DATE: 1949
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p5748

    p5748

    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome (Salomé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood
    • DATE: 1570
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p1015

    p1015

    • ARTIST: Fokion Dimitriadis (Greece, 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing in Syntagma Square, Athens, while her brother Raymond watches
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1914
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: humor, Isadora Duncan, caricature
  • p6688

    p6688

    • TITLE OF WORK: The ice scating salon in Chicago (Der Eisbahnsalon in Chicago)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.7 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • KEYWORDS: skating
  • p2083

    p2083

    • ARTIST: Valdo Barbey (France, 1880-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Stage design for the ballet "Padmavati"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, stage
  • p9303

    p9303

    • ARTIST: Arnaldo Ferraguti (Italy, 1862-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the wings
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and pastel
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 64.5 x 52.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p6836

    p6836

    • TITLE OF WORK: Improvised ball of the Guards (Improvisirter Schützenfestball)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.2 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • p0468

    p0468

    • ARTIST: Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jewish wedding in Morocco (Noce juive au Maroc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1839
    • DIMENSIONS: 105 x 140 cm
    • COMMENTS: Aquired at the Salon of 1841
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Morocco, France, Israel,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
  • s2797

    s2797

    • ARTIST: A. Collette (drawing); Goglet (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La bourrée croisée des filles
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Auvergne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple, bourrée croisée
  • p5643

    p5643

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sword dance from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination
    • DATE: 1300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s3285

    s3285

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Line abstraction of dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1936
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • p0750

    p0750

    • ARTIST: John Webber (U.K., 1751-1793) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tongan "dance of the night"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1778
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Natives of the Hapace tribe
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Tonga
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1308

    p1308

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Antonio Sasso (active circa 1801-1820) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Modern dance called Candiotta (Danza moderna detta la Candiotta)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint, color
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 26.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Crete
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, candiotta
  • s0040

    s0040

    • ARTIST: Jacques-Ferdinand Humbert (France, 1842-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1897
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 124.5 x 66 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "F. Humbert"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, court
  • s3594

    s3594

    • ARTIST: Elza Köveshàzi-Kalmàr (Hungary, 1876-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tàncosnö)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • p2313

    p2313

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pulcinella concert
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, majolica
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Neapolitan majolica with a scene from the Italian Commedia dell' Arte
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p7522

    p7522

    • ARTIST: Archibald Motley Jr. (U.S.A., 1891-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Blues (detail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1929
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: jazz
  • p1898

    p1898

    • ARTIST: Antonio Chamán (Spain, 1830-1860)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Aurora La Cuji?i. Andalucian customs (Aurora La Cuji?i. Costumbres Andaluzas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p6366

    p6366

    • TITLE OF WORK: Description and figure of the Sabbath of the sorcerers (Description et figure du sabbat des sorciers)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1613
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p2201

    p2201

    • TITLE OF WORK: Court dancers -2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1580
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p6733

    p6733

    • ARTIST: Carlos Llobet Busquets (Spain, 1857-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Cchun-chun - Jota de Navarra (El chun-chun - Jota de Navarra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
  • s4189

    s4189

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Frivolity (Leichtsinn)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular, ballroom
  • p0209

    p0209

    • ARTIST: Anatolio Scifoni (Italy, 1841-1884) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Popular feast in the night of 23 to 24 June, in Rome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome
  • p8662

    p8662

    • ARTIST: W. Ralston (drawing); Herbert P. Templar (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ladies' cycling club. Where we wound up the evening with a country dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood engraving
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular. traditional, couple, country
  • p7203

    p7203

    • TITLE OF WORK: State visit to the City. The royal quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.8 x 34.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p5169

    p5169

    • TITLE OF WORK: Apache fire dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Native
  • s5865

    s5865

    • ARTIST: Bologna 322 Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Return of Hephaistus to Olympus. Attic black-figure neck amphora
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure neck amphora
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 27,3 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: Da Hephaistos lahm geboren wurde, wirft seine Mutter Hera ihn ins Meer, wo er von Nereiden aufgezogen wird. Um sich an Hera zu rächen, schenkt Hephaistos ihr einen kunstvollen Thron, der sie jedoch mi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: Maenad
  • p6093

    p6093

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Furious palpitation (Palpitation furieuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencils, color
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9241

    p9241

    • TITLE OF WORK: Popular festival in honor of the Emperor Franz Joseph in the bishop's park Furgaves of Agram (Volksfest zu Ehren des Kaisers Franz Joseph im bischöflichen Park Furgaves zu Agram)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round, couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s1966

    s1966

    • ARTIST: Dominique de Seguin (France, 19?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alma dancer (Danseuse d'Alma)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, resin
    • DATE: 1998
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the IXème Biennale dels pintors i escultors de la dansa. Barcelona, 03/02/1999.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0522

    s0522

    • ARTIST: Joan Miró (Spain, 1893-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Creole dancer (Danseuse créole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint and carborundum printed in colors
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 114 x 74 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed in pencil and numbered
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • p2544

    p2544

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bouvier (after a print by)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito in the polka of the ballet "La Vivandière"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1844
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7842

    p7842

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Maximilien Gardel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • p7179

    p7179

    • ARTIST: Ferdinandus (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The voyage of the Prince of Wales in India (Le voyage du Prince de Galles dans l'Inde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.9 x 22.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: The principal incidents
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s1395

    s1395

    • TITLE OF WORK: Second French Theater - "Sardanapalus", a scene from the third act: Sardanapalus, Mr. Bouchet … (Second-Théâtre-Français - "Sardanapale", scène du 3e acte: Sardanapale, M. Bouchet…)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 13 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Sardanapale", tragedy in 5 acts, by Mr. Lefevre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p1527

    p1527

    • ARTIST: Max Pechstein (Germany, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance V (Tanz V)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p2399

    p2399

    • ARTIST: Christian Rohlfs (Germany, 1849-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Death dance (Totentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera on canvas
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 100 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany

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