Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4206

    s4206

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saharet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, cabaret, music-hall
  • p0621

    p0621

    • TITLE OF WORK: Indians' dance (Danse d'Indiens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 6 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Spectacle in New York, for the benefit of the wounded of the Federal Army.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indian,
  • p8084

    p8084

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "La délivrance de Renaud". L'hermite et les soldats de Godefroy. Décor mobile sur char
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1617
    • COMMENTS: A ballet danced by king Louis the 13th (in the role of the Fire Demon) and the duke of Luynes (as the knight Renaud) in the great hall of the Louvre on 29/01/1617.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9022

    p9022

    • ARTIST: Evangelos Frudakis (U.S.A., 1921-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Liberty (Eleftheria)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bas-relief, bronze
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 55 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Greece, Crete
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
    • KEYWORDS: music, lyra
  • p6755

    p6755

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (France, 1827-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young people dancing the tarantella in the bay of Naples (Jeunes gens dansant la tarentelle dans la baie de Naples)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1856
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 36.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France, Naples
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • s1118

    s1118

    • ARTIST: Antoine Calbet (France, 1860-1944) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The white shawl (Le châle blanc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 20.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, stage, flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • p1218

    p1218

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Golden Age (L'âge d'or)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1904
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 189.2 x 176.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1581

    s1581

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La boutique fantasque": Le Roi de Cartes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink and wash
    • DATE: 1950
    • COMMENTS: "La boutique fantasque", ballet on music by G. Rossini, choreography by L. Massine, costumes and decor by André Derain. First presented in 1950.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3558

    s3558

    • ARTIST: Emilio Greco (Italy, 1913-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze with dark brown patina
    • DATE: 1955
    • DIMENSIONS: 39.7 x 12.2 x 11.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped "GRECO" on the base
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p5061

    p5061

    • ARTIST: Paul Seltenhammer (Austria, 1903-1987)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. Nuits de folie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1932
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1623

    s1623

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the "Revue Zizi Jeanmaire": Les Demoiselles de Petite Vertue
    • 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
  • s4719

    s4719

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mixed technique, glued on carton
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 41.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dedicated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • p2135

    p2135

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer from behind in the dressing room
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1930
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9775

    p9775

    • ARTIST: Anton Romako (Austria, 1832-1889)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 53.3 x 45.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "A. Romako a Roma" at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s0883

    s0883

    • ARTIST: Pierre Lelong (France, 1908-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The "Red and violet" ball at the Opera (Le bal "rouge et violet" à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 46.8 x 31.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: La renaissance des grandes fêtes parisiennes en 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise, mask
  • s5995

    s5995

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Schaumann (Germany) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Church festival in Schwabia (Swäbische Kirchweih)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1861
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Schwaben
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p2367

    p2367

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1897
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7768

    p7768

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "L'orchestre en bleu": Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1931
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4006

    s4006

    • TITLE OF WORK: Life, tropical number
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hawaii, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: hula, traditional, popular
  • p9588

    p9588

    • ARTIST: Georges Braque (France, 1882-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les fâcheux": A Man
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les fâcheux", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, Paris, 1924. Music by G. Auric; story by B. Kochno, from the comedy-ballet of Molière; choreography by B. Nijinska; décors and costumes by Georg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5565

    s5565

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing round the May Tree in Belgium (Tanz um den Maibaum in Belgien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p1265

    p1265

    • ARTIST: Symeon Savvidis (Turkey, 1859-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballerina (Ballarina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 10 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dedicated "To Mrs Campani in friendly memory"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3100

    s3100

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Tchérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salomé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible, nude
  • p0396

    p0396

    • TITLE OF WORK: Young women musicians and young girl dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -1415
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Tomb of Djeserkareseneb, Egypt. The paces of the two musicians in the middle have been restored.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Ancient
    • KEYWORDS: procession, child
  • s1133

    s1133

    • ARTIST: J. Touchet (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An elegant dance hall, where couples evolve on a lighted floor (Un dancing élégant, o? les couples évoluent sur une piste lumineuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: music, saxophone
  • s0069

    s0069

    • ARTIST: Théobald Michau (Flanders, 1676-1765) (circle of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A village kermesse
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on copper
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.2 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0667

    s0667

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Examination day (Le jour de l'examen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 4.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s2500

    s2500

    • ARTIST: Benard (direction)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Night dance, executed by the men of Hapaee (Danse de nuit, exécutée par les hommes de Hapaee)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 38.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Tonga, Pacific, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p7526

    p7526

    • ARTIST: Gino Severini (Italy, 1883-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sea=Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 80.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • p5317

    p5317

    • ARTIST: Fritz Syberg (Denmark, 1862-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Aftenleg i Skanninge Bakker
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 174 x 230 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s6024

    s6024

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pan and a maenad dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze
    • DATE: -330
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Found in Nemea
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: Pan
  • p1198

    p1198

    • ARTIST: Erich Heckel (Germany, 1883-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Group of dancers (Tanzgruppe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 37 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p2098

    p2098

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for the ballet "La fée des poupées"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6944

    p6944

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Galli-Bibiena (Italy, 1717-1760)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A palace courtyard
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1725
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Stage design for a palace scene in opera-ballet repertory
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p8147

    p8147

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: Santa Clara Buffalo Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p1796

    p1796

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and flutist, on an early Attic loutrophoros amphore vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -620
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: round, circular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • p5690

    p5690

    • ARTIST: Theodor Aman (Romania, 1831-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The belt (La ceinture)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4616

    p4616

    • TITLE OF WORK: Italian dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1729
    • COMMENTS: Detail aus dem bemalten Deckel eines einmanualigen italienischen Kielflügels
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4494

    s4494

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures of female dancers as decoration on a bottle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, silver
    • DATE: 400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Sassanid period silver bottle bearing decoration influenced by Greek art
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Persia, Iran, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0864

    p0864

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: Souvenir program of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (Diaghilev) for the season 1923-1924.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1122

    s1122

    • ARTIST: William Henry Pike or Oliver Paque (U.K., 1846-1908) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the "Mammoth Fun City" at Olympia: some of the turns. Moors wildly dance to pipe and drum
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.3 x 14.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, U.K., England, London,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, pipe, drum
  • p9668

    p9668

    • TITLE OF WORK: The banquet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on copper
    • DATE: 1615
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.2 x 10.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Unknown painter of the Flemish school of the first quarter of the 17th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p2916

    p2916

    • TITLE OF WORK: Autriche - Amarante
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Chocolat Guérin-Boutron, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p3897

    p3897

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango vivo!
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1993
    • COMMENTS: Publicity for a dance school in Berlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p3783

    p3783

    • TITLE OF WORK: Claudina Gucci
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • s5679

    s5679

    • ARTIST: Group of Ferrara (Greece, active ca. 480-ca. 450 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Skyphos vase with dancer and Komast
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on terracotta, wheel made; red-figure vase. Repaired with copper alloy
    • DATE: -460
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.9 height x 27.5 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed: KA?O? (beautiful). This "skyphos," a large drinking cup, depicts a dancer and a "komast," a drunken reveler. The dancer lunges to the right with extended arms, while the "komast" stands in
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p9262

    p9262

    • ARTIST: Lucien Davis (U.K., 1860-1941) (drawing); R. Taylor (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Going to the ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.8 x 47.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s3299

    s3299

    • ARTIST: Leonardo De Mango (Italy, 1843-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bayram Yeri [1]
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 92 x 160 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, line
    • KEYWORDS: drum, zurna
  • s0411

    s0411

    • ARTIST: Emil Keyser (Switzerland, 1846-1923) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's reel (Kinderreigen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 35 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p2497

    p2497

    • ARTIST: EWC (drawing); Maguire, Lemercier & Co. (lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Madame Vestris as Orpheus in "Olympic Devils"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1832
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 24.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Euridice! Euridice! Euridice!" English Stars No. 1. Royal Olympic Theatre, London, 1832.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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