TITLE OF WORK: Boy dancing at a contest, flutist. Corinthian aryballos vase
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure aryballos vase
DATE: -580
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 53 x 52 cm diam.
COMMENTS: Middle Corinthian aryballos. Probably a prize in a dance contest or commissioned afterwards to commemorate the event. The inscription reads: ???F??? ?????????????? ???? ?? F?? ???? (For the leader of
TITLE OF WORK: Mrs. Martin née Gosselin, first dancer of the Royal Academy of Music (Mme Martin née Gosselin, première danseuse de l'Académie Royale de Musique)
TITLE OF WORK: From German East Africa: Suahili dancers dancing at Sikuku - moslem New Year's festival (Aus Deutsch-Ostafrika: Suahelitänzer am Sikuku - mohammedanische Neujahrsfeier)
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1891
DIMENSIONS: 16.7 x 23.2 cm
COMMENTS: 300 warriors brought from the Portuguese colony Moxambique to German East Africa to serve as guards. The belong to the Wandingo or Wangoni tribe
TITLE OF WORK: A male artist's idea of a meeting of young women voters to discuss the General Election
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1929
DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 12 cm
COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Bright red young people. Rushing to the political freak party - Labour and the business-woman voter" by Lady Eleanor Smith
TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "L'après-midi d'un faune": The Faun (danced by Vaslav Nijinsky)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, gouache, watercolor and gold on paper mounted on cardboard
DATE: 1912
DIMENSIONS: 38.8 x 27.1 cm
COMMENTS: Ballet "L'après-midi d'un faune" for the Bellets Russes; music by Claude Debussy, choreography by Vaslav Nininsky, décors and costumes by Leon Bakst
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia, France, Paris,
TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
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
ARTIST: A. Theil (drawing); Jules Worms (France, 1832-1924) (engraving)
TITLE OF WORK: Naight ball given on the occasion of the passing of the line, starboard (Bal de nuit donné à l'occasion du passage de la ligne, tribord)
TITLE OF WORK: Decor design for the ballet "El amor brujo": Three-fold screen
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1954
DIMENSIONS: 177.8 x 181.6 cm
COMMENTS: From the collection of Ruth Page. The ballet "El amor brujo" was first performed in Chicago on 12/12/1954. Choreography and libretto by Ruth Page based on a story by Martinez Sierra, music by Manuel d
ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the opera "Le rossignol" (The nightingale): Courtesan Bearing the Cage
TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
DATE: 1914
COMMENTS: "Le rossignol", opera by the Balets Russes. Music by I. Stravinsky after a tale by Andersen; choreography by B. Romanov, scenery and costumes by A. Benois. In 1916 the opera was presented with scenery
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris, China
