Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4936

    s4936

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Star
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze chryselephantine
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 59 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p6824

    p6824

    • ARTIST: Spyros Vassiliou (Greece, 1902-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Easter time (Paschalino)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1943
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.9 x 12.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s2544

    s2544

    • ARTIST: Paul Merwart (Poland, 1855-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cossack carnival - The doumkas, popular songs (Le carnaval cosaque - Les doumkas, chansons populaires)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 20 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the poem "Doumka" by François de Jalliot
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Ukraine, Caucase
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • s4104

    s4104

    • TITLE OF WORK: Young men and women in a circular dance, holding by the shoulders
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1504
    • COMMENTS: From the life of Saint George
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, circle
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s3930

    s3930

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexandre Sakharoff (Alexander Sacharoff). Portrait in profile
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3984

    p3984

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in tutu (Danseuse au tutu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal heightened
    • DATE: 1873
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2981

    s2981

    • ARTIST: Marcel-Louis Baugniet (Belgium, 1896-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Akarova in "Lettres dansantes" by Schumann
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5207

    s5207

    • TITLE OF WORK: Picture of La Argentina at a performance in Triana (Imagen de La Argentina en una referenceia a Triana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1929
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p3320

    p3320

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance on the seashore
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on black acrylic background
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.4 x 20.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p3256

    p3256

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Expression
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1952
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1951

    s1951

    • ARTIST: Dogal
    • TITLE OF WORK: Make me fly (Envole-moi)
    • 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
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p4372

    p4372

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer, from "Le sacre du printemps"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4889

    p4889

    • ARTIST: Béla Vizkelety (Hungary, 1825-1864) (drawing); Rohn (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hungarian Dalida 1860 (Magyar Dalid? 1860ban.)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1860
    • COMMENTS: The scene shows a Körtanz (round dance) that was very popular in Hungary and Austria. It was choreographed by Lajos Szöllösy Szab? (1803-1882), ballet master of the Hungarian national theater in Pest.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p8910

    p8910

    • ARTIST: Nicholas Roerich (Russia, 1874-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Polovtsian dances": A Polovtsian
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: "Danses polovtsiennes", second act of the opera "Prince Igor" by A. Borodin; choreography by M. Fokine, décors and costumes by Nicolas Roerich
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3332

    p3332

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Civilian and sailor dancing Zeibekiko, 13/02/1981
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on painted paper
    • DATE: 1981
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 43 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 13/02/1981
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: military, rebetiko
  • s4327

    s4327

    • ARTIST: Jan Snellinck (Flanders, 1544-1638) (design); Hans Collaert the Elder (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance around the golden calf
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From "Moses with the tables of the law" and "Old Testament exempla of the ten commandments"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Palestine, Israel
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1075

    p1075

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flanders, 1525-1569)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing peasant
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera on canvas
    • DATE: 1565
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 43 cm
    • COMMENTS: A dancer's figure from the "Wedding dance in the open".
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1417

    s1417

    • TITLE OF WORK: The waltz in Alsatia (La valse en Alsace)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Alsatia, Alsace
    • DANCE FORM: folk, couple, waltz, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • p5404

    p5404

    • TITLE OF WORK: The polka in Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka
  • p5602

    p5602

    • ARTIST: F. Holoubek
    • TITLE OF WORK: Galop
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
  • p4308

    p4308

    • ARTIST: Matvei Chichkov (Russia, 1832-1897)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant", act 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • COMMENTS: For the first performance, in the Mariinski Theater of Saint Petersburg, 1890.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9227

    p9227

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink over pencil
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 20.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s3858

    s3858

    • ARTIST: Alexander Sacharoff or Sakharoff (Ukraine, 1886-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Self-portrait
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From his black notebook
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4187

    p4187

    • ARTIST: Georges Bergès (France, 1870-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Las Flamencas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p9581

    p9581

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les biches": A Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les biches", ballet in one act with songs. Music by Francis Poulenc, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; curtain, décors and costumes by Marie Laurencin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5919

    s5919

    • TITLE OF WORK: Candelabrum stand of a dancing Maenad, 525-500 BC. Etruscan bronze figurine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: -515
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
  • p0408

    p0408

    • TITLE OF WORK: Four dervishes dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1485
    • COMMENTS: From the Kamsah by Amir Khusran, Persia, 1485.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, traditional, whirling, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s4642

    s4642

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Véron-Bellecourt (France, 1773-1838?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance in the park (La danse dans le parc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on wooden panel
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 44.5 x 39.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: After Pater
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • s2081

    s2081

    • ARTIST: Pierre Richard-Willm (France, 1895-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Spectre de la rose" (Nijinsky dans le "Spectre de la rose")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1989
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8969

    p8969

    • ARTIST: Fortuné Louis Méaulle (France, 1844-1901) (drawing); H. Meyer (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Voyage to the moon" at the Theatre of the Porte-Saint-Martin. Snow Ballet (Le voyage dans la lune au Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin. Ballet de la neige)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 26.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Voyage inside the moon" at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin. Snow ballet
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2458

    s2458

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three masked grotesque dancers holding "çegane" (jingling johnie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0899

    p0899

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Musician Faun, nymph carrying goat and dancer with tambourine (Faune musicien, nymphe porteuse..)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink on canvas
    • DATE: 1948
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.7 x 19.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Executed to serve in the film "Le mystère Picasso"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • s5063

    s5063

    • ARTIST: Amadeo Preziosi (Malta, 1816-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dervish in praying
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mixed technique on paper
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Many variations
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul,
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, traditional, solo, whirling
    • KEYWORDS: religion,
  • s2781

    s2781

    • ARTIST: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (France, 1724-1780)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A May ball given in Versailles during carnival of the year 1763 (Bal du May donné à Versailles pendant le carnaval de l'année 1763)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1764
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Versailles
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: tree
  • p2752

    p2752

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Pater (France, 1695-1736)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s0508

    s0508

    • ARTIST: Suzanne Eisendieck (France, 1908-1998)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Final rehearsal (Repétition finale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 73.5 x 61 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed, also titled on the reverse
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: flower
  • s4213

    s4213

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Old Vienna (Alt-Wien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular, ballroom
  • p7651

    p7651

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Paul Taglioni in the Mazurka from the ballet "La Gitana"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8513

    p8513

    • ARTIST: Victor Ségoffin (France, 1867-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: War dance or Sacred dance (Danse guerrière ou Danse sacrée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statue, marble
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 250 x 140 x 80 cm
    • COMMENTS: Originally in the Palais de l'Elysée, Paris. Full-size plaster model destroyed in 1964. Half-size marble copy in unknown location. There exist reduced size copies in bronze. Compare with illustration
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s2530

    s2530

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Révillon (France, 1819-1869) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of the Opéra. Plaster plaque (Danseuse de l'Opéra. Plaquette plâtre) 4
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome, from a relief
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.5 x 3.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4415

    p4415

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Admiration
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7951

    p7951

    • ARTIST: Romain de Tirtoff "Erté" (Russia, 1892-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding dance (Danse nuptiale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p4190

    p4190

    • ARTIST: Theodor Aman (Romania, 1831-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: After the vintage (Dupa Culesul Viilor)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 75.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the New York International Exhibition 1938. Signed with red paint at bottom right, dateless
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, violin
  • p8020

    p8020

    • TITLE OF WORK: Excursion to the village festival (Die Exkursion zur Kirmes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 13 cm
    • COMMENTS: Motto: Who loves must suffer
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, folk, couple
  • s1332

    s1332

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The queen's passe-pied - 2 (Der "Passe-pied de la reine" -2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustrations for an article
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, passepied de la reine, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p1714

    p1714

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Can I dance the Syrtaki with you, guys? (J'peux danser le sirtaki avec vous, les mecs?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, caricature, cartoon
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, syrtaki Greek dance
  • p2841

    p2841

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: R. Kopsahili as Mother, K. Dima as Gisele and H. Karabelas as Duke in "Gisele"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1983
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by K. Bokoeva, sets and costumes by E. Solomonidi-Balanou, music by A. Adam. Athens, National Lyric Scene, 10/02/1983.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5969

    p5969

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: The baroque dancer (Le danseur baroque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, molding
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6120

    p6120

    • ARTIST: Cyprian Kamil Norwid (Poland, 1821-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Musician unnecessary
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p7059

    p7059

    • ARTIST: Charles Grignion the Younger (U.K., 1754-1804)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saltarello
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, stipple engraving, colored
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular

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