Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3352

    p3352

    • ARTIST: Sam Abercrombie (Australia, 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rudolf Nureyev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1975
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3818

    p3818

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchic dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.4 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: After a vase in the Louvre called "The Borghese crater"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
  • p2589

    p2589

    • ARTIST: Régis de Trobriand (France, 1816-1897) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hippolyte and Adèle Monplaisir (Georges Sornier and Adèle Bortholomin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 19 cm
    • COMMENTS: La Zingarilla as danced by Madame & Monsieur Monplaisir in the Grand Asiatic Ballet of "L'Almée" as performed under the direction of Monsieur V. Bartholomin, at the Broadway Theatre. Music cover litho
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3903

    p3903

    • ARTIST: Lionel Koechlin (France, 1948-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1993
    • COMMENTS: Drawing for the poster of the film "Tango", directed by Patrice Leconte
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p0147

    p0147

    • ARTIST: Romain de Tirtoff "Erté" (Russia, 1892-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Oriental Danse at the Folies Bergère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0560

    p0560

    • ARTIST: René Lelong (France, 1871-1933) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pas de trois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1779
    • COMMENTS: Madeleine Guimard, Marie Allard and Jean Dauberval at the Paris Opera.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, trio
  • s2091

    s2091

    • ARTIST: Kazimierz Jasnoch (Poland, 1886-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Tancerka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s0978

    s0978

    • TITLE OF WORK: The employment of children in pantomimes. A few moments of rest.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: children, off-stage
  • p0537

    p0537

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bernard (France, 1866-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young dancer draped (Jeune danseuse à la draperie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, patina
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 139 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed and numbered. Several versions exist of the model created in 1912 for the French State. Another version has height 64 cm, bears stamp of Valsuani foundry
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s2986

    s2986

    • ARTIST: Fortunato Depero (Italy, 1892-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "Costume chiffre" by Massine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1929
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: costume, typography, letters
  • p7496

    p7496

    • ARTIST: Vera Sudeikina (Russia, 1888-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Untitled
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.6 x 33.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • p8595

    p8595

    • ARTIST: E. Aubert (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the natives of the Viti Islands - Oceania (Danse des naturels des Iles Viti - Océanie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, wood
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.9 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Published by Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Oceania, Pacific
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6925

    p6925

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Bal Bullier dance hall (Le Bal Bullier)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The Bal Bullier was a very popular dance hall in Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6128

    p6128

    • ARTIST: Honoré Daumier (France, 1808-1879)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of a female dancer (Etude de danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and black stone
    • DATE: 1844
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p9013

    p9013

    • ARTIST: Cameron, lieutenant (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lieutenant Cameron's journey across Central Africa: Wedding dance in Ribaineli (Lieutenant Cameron's Reise durch Centralafrika: Hochzeitstanz in Ribaineli)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.2 x 31.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Kenya, Uganda, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: wedding
  • p0776

    p0776

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers executing the "three forward and back" section of the pastourelle figure of a quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: England, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille, ballroom
  • p7342

    p7342

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance figures. Plate 4.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p7912

    p7912

    • ARTIST: Paul Klee (Switzerland, 1879-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Drawing for "Dance you monster to my soft song" (Zeichnung zu "Tanze Du Ungeheuer zu meinem sanften Lied")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.3 x 26.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at upper left "Klee"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • p2830

    p2830

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures of Spanish dancers from "Florilegio"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1980
    • COMMENTS: Athens, Veakio Theater, 21/07/1980.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s2662

    s2662

    • ARTIST: H. Linton (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Opera - "Sacountala" pantomime ballet, décor of the first act (Opéra - "Sacountala", ballet-pantomime, décor du premier acte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 31.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by Fulgence Girard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, India
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, stage
  • p1182

    p1182

    • ARTIST: James McNeill Whistler (U.S.A., 1834-1903)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, black stone and pastel on brown paper
    • DATE: 1892
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.8 x 19.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
  • p6947

    p6947

    • TITLE OF WORK: Monsieur Dubreil as Scaramouche
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1665
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p4350

    p4350

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Turn in the air without changing foot (Tour en l'air sans changement de pied)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4526

    p4526

    • TITLE OF WORK: British sailors dancing in the Arsenal Yard at Tophaneh, Constantinople
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constaninople, Istanbul, U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: navy
  • s2415

    s2415

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Stage choreographical sketch (Croquis chorégraphique de scene)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sketch, black ink
    • DATE: 1952
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical
  • s1556

    s1556

    • ARTIST: Georges Goursat or SEM (France, 1863-1934) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Boldini dancing with his model (Boldini dansant avec son modèle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 7.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s0232

    s0232

    • ARTIST: August Roeseler (Germany, 1866-1934) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: On the dance floor. Scene from Upper Bavaria (Auf dem Tanzboden. Motiv aus Oberbaiern)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 45.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Upper Bavaria, Oberbayern
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: music, ball
  • p1794

    p1794

    • ARTIST: Prince Grigoriy Grigoriyevich Gagarin (Russia, 1810-1893) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greeks celebrating the Holy Week at the Great Cemetery of Pera
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5360

    s5360

    • ARTIST: Max Slevogt (Germany, 1868-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anna Pavlova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • p9909

    p9909

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers - yellow background (Les danseuses - fond jaune)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1954
    • DIMENSIONS: 56.8 x 42.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed in ink, from the numbered edition of 75, printed by Mourlot, Paris, published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p3740

    p3740

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cover to the programme for the ballet "Swan lake"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and India ink on paper
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 16.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Piotr Tchaikovsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p3001

    p3001

    • ARTIST: Walter Schott (Germany, 1861-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: 1903
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9975

    p9975

    • ARTIST: B. Picart (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tchingui, Turkish male dancer (Tchingui, danseur turc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1742
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.4 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey, Ottoman
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • s0028

    s0028

    • ARTIST: Y. Serruys
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with shawl (Danseuse à l'écharpe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, shawl,
  • s1747

    s1747

    • ARTIST: Louis Legrand (France, 1863-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The crossing (Le croisement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
    • KEYWORDS: exercise
  • s1898

    s1898

    • ARTIST: Dean Cornwell (U.S.A., 1892-1960) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pioneers and 'Forty-niners (Detail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1929
    • COMMENTS: Detail from one of four panels for the new Public Library in Los Angeles
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Spain, Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: guitar
  • s0986

    s0986

    • TITLE OF WORK: The war in Italy. Field camp in Italy (Der Krieg in Italien. Ein Feldlager in Italien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: From an original drawing by an Austrian officer
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military, army
  • p3920

    p3920

    • TITLE OF WORK: Painted human figures which seem to be dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -5000
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Probably musicians and dancers, according to paleontologists' interpretation
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • p3573

    p3573

    • ARTIST: Ettore Tito (Italy, 1859-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchanal (Bacchanale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Antiquity
  • p8246

    p8246

    • TITLE OF WORK: A living frieze at the palace of Agamemnon. Miss Regina Badet dances voluptuously in the middle of other dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 48.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: A living frieze in the palace of Agamemnon. Miss Regina Badet dances voluptuously amidst other dancers. "Iphigénie en Aulide" at the Opéra Comique, Paris. Music by Gluck,
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3104

    p3104

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Charles-Louis Didelot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: Choreographer
  • p8170

    p8170

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • 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
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4683

    s4683

    • ARTIST: Sugimura Jihei (Japan, 1681?-1703)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lion dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodblock
    • DATE: 1690
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: lion dance, traditional, popular
  • p4329

    p4329

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Breakfast on the lawn ("Le déjeuner sur l'herbe")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1945
    • COMMENTS: "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe", ballet de Irène Lidova; musique de Joseph Laner, orchestrée par A. Tcherepine, decor et costumes de Marie Laurencin, chorégraphie de Roland Petit; Les Ballets des Champs-Ely
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0720

    p0720

    • TITLE OF WORK: Old German dance song (Altdeutsches Tanzlied)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.5 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p2956

    p2956

    • TITLE OF WORK: Casino de Paris. Cecile Sorel in the revue Paris-New York with the Eighteen Gertrude Hoffman Girls (Casino de Paris. Cecile Sorel dans la revue Paris-New York avec les Eighteen Gertrude Hoffman Girls)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Louis Léon Martin wrote on the Girls: "It was neither dance nor acrobatics, but a spasm"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, quadrille, music-hall, charleston
  • p8696

    p8696

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Shakespeare commemoration at Stratford-on-Avon: Scene from "Twelfth night", as played in the Festival Pavillion
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.3 x 23.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p1539

    p1539

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing children (Tanzende Kinder)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 73 x 88 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: child,
  • p7737

    p7737

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet sword and lance. Miss Pierson, Mr. Taglioni son, Miss Taglioni, Mr. Stullmüller as Amazons and Greek fencers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1826
    • COMMENTS: Erinnerungen an das Ballet des Kgl. Hoftheaters (Ballet souvenirs of the Royal Theater), Stuttgart
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9075

    p9075

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le coq d'or": A Young Man
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on carton
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume

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