Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p6229

    p6229

    • ARTIST: Roussel (drawing); Best, Hotelin & Cie (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the village (La danse au village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 22.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: A wedding in Gaptarofka, district of Koursk. From a voyage to Russia, by Mme E. Boisgontier.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5271

    p5271

    • ARTIST: Pavel Tchelitchew (Russia, 1898-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Tamara Toumanova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1932
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8884

    p8884

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Pavlovic Bobychov or Bobychev (1885-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "The bronze horseman"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1949
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "The bronze horseman" (Cavalier de bronze), after a poem by Alexander Poushkin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9340

    p9340

    • ARTIST: Gustave Mallet
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing woman (Femme dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel on board
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 71 x 25.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p3239

    p3239

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance mask of the Marka people
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood covered with copper sheeting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Guinea, Marka
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Marka
  • p9217

    p9217

    • ARTIST: Victor Brauner (Romania, 1903-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three ladies dancing (Trois dames dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil and wax on board laid down on panel
    • DATE: 1945
    • DIMENSIONS: 56 x 77 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 2.8.945 (02/08/1945)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p3201

    p3201

    • ARTIST: Bruno Zach (Austria, 1891-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a ballet of Stenka Razine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache and pastel
    • DATE: 1943
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lea Nouveaux Ballets de Monte Carlo, choreography by N. Zwereff. Principal dancers: Evariste Madejski, Ludmila Tcherina, Edmond Audran.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Monaco
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4290

    s4290

    • ARTIST: Ivan Burkvitsa
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two men dancing in a tavern
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1894
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bulgaria, Ottoman
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2605

    s2605

    • ARTIST: L. Crépon (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchanal of the brewer boys (Bacchanale des garçons brasseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 23.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le Japon" by Aimé Humbert, 1863-1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9019

    p9019

    • TITLE OF WORK: A fête at San Roque, Gibraltar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 31.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Gibraltar, U.K., Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, solo
  • p5094

    p5094

    • TITLE OF WORK: The mazurka
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, mazurka
  • p5299

    p5299

    • ARTIST: Bror Hjorth (Sweden, 1894-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bubbling polka (Näckens polska)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1967
    • DIMENSIONS: 600 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka
  • s3650

    s3650

    • ARTIST: Georges Lavagne (France, 1902-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The sardana at Amélie (La sardane à Amélie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1955
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain, Catalonia
    • DANCE FORM: sardana, traditional, folk, circle
  • p0706

    p0706

    • ARTIST: Werner Zehme (Germany, 1859-?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In a ballroom (In einem Balllokal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 48 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
  • p1683

    p1683

    • ARTIST: Nils von Dardel (Sweden, 1888-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Stage set for the ballet "Nuit de Saint-Jean"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache
    • DATE: 1920
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Suédois
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1852

    s1852

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in "Follow the Navy!" (Fred Astaire et Ginger Rogers dans "Suivez la flotte!")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1936
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p4602

    p4602

    • ARTIST: Johann Ziegler (Germany, 1749-1812)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance after the grape harvest (Tanz nach der Weinlese). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper engraving, colored
    • DATE: 1780
    • COMMENTS: Inscription: St. Veit ohnweit Wien samt den umliegenden Gegenden
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0190

    p0190

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Shéhérazade": Odalisque
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: "Sheherazade", 1910, Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7366

    p7366

    • ARTIST: Richard Caton Woodville (U.K., 1856-1927) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The squire's ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 23.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s2506

    s2506

    • ARTIST: François Martin-Kavel (France, 1861-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Egyptian dancing girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p1100

    p1100

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchanal with goat and spectator (Bacchanale avec chevreau et spectateur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, egraving, linoleum cut, color
    • DATE: 1959
    • DIMENSIONS: 52.7 x 63.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
  • p3762

    p3762

    • ARTIST: Richard Ziegler (Germany, 1891-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer at the barre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1945
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
  • s0110

    s0110

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sailor-Princes in Ceylon. Procession of the Pera-Hara, at Kandy
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 16.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ceylon, Sri Lanka, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4295

    p4295

    • ARTIST: Eugenio Lafuente (Spain, 1890-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The flamenco dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas laid down on board
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 75 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular, flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: guitar, music
  • p8203

    p8203

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mlle Langlois junior in the opera "Panurge" by Grétry
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1785
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • s2734

    s2734

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Slovenian national dances, no. 35
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 35
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Slovenia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p5287

    p5287

    • ARTIST: Bengt Nordenberg (Sweden, 1822-1902)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Midsummer dance at Leksand Church (Midsommardans vid Leksands kyrka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1854
    • DIMENSIONS: 131 x 167 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1789

    p1789

    • ARTIST: Maurice Denis (France, 1870-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for "Sweet vision" (Etude pour "Douce vision")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on tracing paper
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.5 x 25.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: After a photograph that Maurice Denis took of Christine Lasalle dancing with veils in the manner of Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s5749

    s5749

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer with a coat and ball? (Danseuse au manteau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine
    • DATE: -150
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Made in Myrina?
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: coat
  • s4798

    s4798

    • ARTIST: Rodolfo B. Feleo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company. Rural lass and lad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, monochrome
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Philippines
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p1776

    p1776

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le pavillon d'Armide": A Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil
    • DATE: 1907
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 34 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0235

    p0235

    • ARTIST: Henri Valentin (France, 1820-1855) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Fanny Cerrito (Mademoiselle Cerrito)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2389

    s2389

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 34
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • s5589

    s5589

    • ARTIST: Kleitias Painter & Ergotimos Potter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Geranos dance on the François vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on a vase
    • DATE: -575
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DANCE FORM: Geranos
  • p5184

    p5184

    • ARTIST: Félix Comte (France, 1919-1991)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Alsace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1963
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Alsatia, Alsace
    • DANCE FORM: folk,
  • s0094

    s0094

    • ARTIST: Richard Knötel (Germany, 1857-1914) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the 20th century (Der Tanz des 20. Jahrhunderts)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.9 x 13.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the winter ball of the students of the Berlin Academy of Arts
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p7055

    p7055

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Mauro della Rovere (Italy, 1575?-1640?) (drawing); Leone Pallavicini (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Volte. Two couples from the ballet "The joyfull shepherd"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1604
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p2834

    p2834

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rudolf Nureyev as Prince Florimunt in the ballet "La belle au bois dormant"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1981
    • COMMENTS: Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky, choreography by Petipas and Nureyev, Ballet of the Vienna State OPera. Athens, Herodes Atticus Theater, 08/09/1981.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7812

    p7812

    • TITLE OF WORK: Café cantante
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, flamenco, Spanish dance, solo
  • s1076

    s1076

    • ARTIST: Samuel Melton Fisher (U.K., 1859-1939) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tarantella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.9 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: tarantella, traditional, solo
  • p8835

    p8835

    • ARTIST: G. Broling (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Midsummer festival in Sweden (Mittsommerfest in Schweden)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.9 x 34.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p7869

    p7869

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, drawing, watercolor and pencils
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 24.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3925

    s3925

    • ARTIST: Alexander Sacharoff or Sakharoff (Ukraine, 1886-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Clotlde Sacharoff (Sakharoff - von Derp) as Rosenkavalier
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, tempera and pencil
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s4526

    s4526

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: National dances of Kosovo-Metohia, no. 25
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Kossovo, Serbia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, armed
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sabre
  • s3128

    s3128

    • TITLE OF WORK: Children dancing a ballroom dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, postcard
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: ballrom dance, couple
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p4362

    p4362

    • ARTIST: Daniel Rabel (France, 1578-1637)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet de la Douairière de Billebahaut": Entry of the Frozen ("Ballet de la Douairière de Billebahaut": Entrée des gelés)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache
    • DATE: 1626
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.7 x 44 cm
    • COMMENTS: The "damoiseux gelés" try towarm up holding a fire pot and a flaming hat. The pyrotechnic effects of the ballets at the court of Louis XIII were created by the royal firework-maker Horace Morel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0408

    s0408

    • ARTIST: Vinzenz Katzler (Austria, 1823-1882) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume festival of the Skating Association at Vienna on the 1st of February (Das Costümfest des Eislaufvereins zu Wien am 1. Februar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.4 x 35 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna, Wien
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: skating
  • p0583

    p0583

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene of a review (Scène de revue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1901
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s5694

    s5694

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers (A half of Manju)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ivory
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.8 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: duo
  • p9797

    p9797

    • ARTIST: Louis Legrand (France, 1863-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 66 x 107 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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