Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p6561

    p6561

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The serpentine dance. Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • p9115

    p9115

    • ARTIST: Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky (Lithuania, 1875-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Midas": Apollo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and ink on paper
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: "Midas", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, Paris. Music by M. Steinberg, argument by L. Bakst, choreography by M. Fokine, décors and costumes by M. Doboujinsky.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume, deity
  • s2450

    s2450

    • TITLE OF WORK: Five buffoon dancers, some wearing a phalus, and dervish on stilts
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8579

    p8579

    • ARTIST: Albert Friedrich Schröder (Germany, 1854-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival in Ulm (Fest auf der Ulm)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.4 x 31.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple,
  • p0904

    p0904

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancers at rest (Trois 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
  • p3142

    p3142

    • TITLE OF WORK: Louise Fleury in "The beauty of Ghent"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1755

    s1755

    • ARTIST: Dusan Ristic (Serbia, 1913-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Ballet impressions": Clara
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Czech Republic
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7941

    p7941

    • TITLE OF WORK: Heavenly musicians and female dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, manuscript illumination
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Kangra-Malstil
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • p5972

    p5972

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: On the cloud (Sur le nuage)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7317

    p7317

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "La boutique fantasque"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: First performance by the Ballets Russes at the Alhambra Theatre, LOndon, 05/07/1919; choreography by Massine, music by Rossini
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p6977

    p6977

    • TITLE OF WORK: A young shepherd prepares himself to go on stage with grace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Au foyer des artistes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p2555

    p2555

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Lacauchie (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sophie Dumilâtre and Michel-François Hoguet (Hoguet-Vestris) in "Le diable à quatre"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 12.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Académie Royale de Musique, Opéra de Paris, 1845. Lithographed by Rigo et Compagnie, Paris.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4193

    p4193

    • TITLE OF WORK: A State Ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p5179

    p5179

    • TITLE OF WORK: What a man! Fox trot song
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: score
  • p7887

    p7887

    • ARTIST: Joseph Crawhall (U.K., 1861-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sword Dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1883
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, sword
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • p0370

    p0370

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Before entering the stage (Avant l'entrée en scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lemoisne catalog number 497
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7231

    p7231

    • ARTIST: C. Kolb (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the fat men in the Irving ball of New-Dorf (Ball der Feten in Irving Ball in New-Dorf)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.2 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p1485

    p1485

    • TITLE OF WORK: Funeral dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found at Ruvo di Puglia. Etruscan art
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: line, traditional
  • s2235

    s2235

    • TITLE OF WORK: Procession ofteh Pera-hara at Kandy
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 14.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Prince Albert Victor and Prince George on board the "Bacchante"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sri Lanka, Ceylon, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p1565

    p1565

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • s5644

    s5644

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three nude women and five nude men dancing. Pottery: black-figured amphora with lid
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, black-figured amphora
    • DATE: -550
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.7 cm height; 21 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: Made in Corinth, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Corinth
    • KEYWORDS: nude,
  • s3938

    s3938

    • ARTIST: André Edouard Marty (France, 1882-1974) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinski (Narcisse) - Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and China ink on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p8393

    p8393

    • ARTIST: Frederick Whymper (U.K., 1838-1901) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches from Alaska : Indian dance at Unalachleet, Norton Sound
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the accompanying text : Indians from the country lately called Russian America, the peninsula opposite Kamtschatka, on the east side of Behring Strait, which has now become a territory of the Uni
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K., Alaska
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p0227

    p0227

    • TITLE OF WORK: Women's chorus (Choeur de femmes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 19 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p7610

    p7610

    • ARTIST: Bella Raftopoulou (Greece, (1907-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer with Krotala, after an ancient Greek vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of drawings made for the Delphic Festivals, organized in Delphi, Greece, by Angelos Sikelianos and Eva Palmer-Sikelianos
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
  • p4738

    p4738

    • ARTIST: Parrot (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pastime of Neapolitan peasants under the Royal Palace of Pausilipo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9234

    p9234

    • ARTIST: Tsuguharu Foujita (Japan, 1886-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers (Les danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 42.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7281

    p7281

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in her dressing room (Danseuse dans sa loge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on plaster, transfered on canvas
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 114 x 100.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of four murals for the inn at Ancelin à Villiers-sur-Morin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s2993

    s2993

    • ARTIST: Marguerite Acarin "Akarova" (Belgium, 1904-1999)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design of sets and costumes for "La boîte à joujoux" & "The doll"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1938
    • COMMENTS: Designed and made by Akarova
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Bruxelles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: sets, costumes
  • p5872

    p5872

    • ARTIST: Ustat Mehmed Siyal Kalem
    • TITLE OF WORK: Shaman dancing with the spirits
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: therapy, religion
  • p5279

    p5279

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folk Dance Theater. Dancing along the Silk Road (Folkloristisch Danstheater. Dansend langs de Zijde Route)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1991
    • COMMENTS: Sradsschouwburg Amsterdam 29/01/1991
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p9757

    p9757

    • ARTIST: Alfons Mucha (Chechoslovakia, 1860-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Czech Republic
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo, Oriental ?
  • s1072

    s1072

    • ARTIST: Herbert Johnson (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The "Orient" at Olympia: the dance of Amazons and snake worshippers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 30.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, U.K., London,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7521

    p7521

    • TITLE OF WORK: The carole in the garden (La carole dans le verger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1350
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The song accompanying the dance in the manuscript is "Dame, à vous sans retollir...", for one voice.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, popular, round
  • p2185

    p2185

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Toes out (Les pointes en dehors)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2095

    p2095

    • ARTIST: Jean-Charles Duval (France, 1880-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mademoiselle Krempff in "A?da"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1880
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5884

    p5884

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Les Orientales"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, watercolor and pencil
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 63 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes. Costume for the divertissement in "Les Orientales", produced in Paris in1910. Bakst was based on a photograph by Druet at the house of Jacques-Emile Blanche. The drawing was done for a
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7667

    p7667

    • TITLE OF WORK: Black Crook waltzes. Maria Bonfanti
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Sheet music cover
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: music cover
  • s0468

    s0468

    • ARTIST: Stephan Sedlacek (Czechoslovakia, 1868-1936)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the harem
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 78.5 x 124 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p5804

    p5804

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances of the Toungouses during the fairs (Danses de Toungouses pendant les foires)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 22.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Kamtchatka
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2291

    p2291

    • ARTIST: Diego Rivera (Mexico, 1886-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Tehuantepec
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 199 x 162 cm
    • COMMENTS: Auctioned at Sotheby's New York on 17-18 May 1995, estimated 3-4 million dollars.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s5635

    s5635

    • ARTIST: Charles Robert Cockerell (U.K., 1788-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Albanian dance at the Theseion (Temple of Hephaestus), AthensrnGraphite with watercolour
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, graphite with watercolour
    • DATE: 1811
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.7 x 26.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed in graphite at top left:" Tanz der Albanesen am Theseus Temple / den zweiten Osterfeiertag den 16 April 1811".
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: temple
  • s1365

    s1365

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with top hat and cane (Danseur avec haut-de-forme et canne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, ivory and bronze
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: hat, stick, cane
  • p3422

    p3422

    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding dance and musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Gascogne
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p8537

    p8537

    • ARTIST: Jean-Antoine Watteau (France, 1684-1721) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (Der Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.9 x 21.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • s3775

    s3775

    • ARTIST: Dafydd Palfrey
    • TITLE OF WORK: Reel step
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Wales
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • p0800

    p0800

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s2254

    s2254

    • ARTIST: Alexander Sacharoff or Sakharoff (Ukraine, 1886-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance study (Tanzstudie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p5549

    p5549

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing in the Assembly Rooms in Bath
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1798
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p3219

    p3219

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer wearing a bird mask
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, stone
    • DATE: 1000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Fragment of a circumcision seat.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional

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