Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p5383

    p5383

    • ARTIST: Luigi Colombo "Fillìa" (Italy, 1904-1936)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figura/Ballerina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • p0167

    p0167

    • ARTIST: Thanassis Spyropoulos (Greece, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1968
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by "I zimia", a song by Vassilis Tsitsanis
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, zeibekiko
  • s0492

    s0492

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Goethe Dancer of the Masks Cabinet at the Vatican, Rome (Die Goethe-Tänzerin des Cabinete delle Maschere im Vatican zu Rom)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 12.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Rome, Vatican, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p9961

    p9961

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A rehearsal of "The spinning wheel of Armor" directed by Mr. Leo Staats (Une répétition du "Rouet d'Armor", réglée par M. Leo Staats)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1937
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.6 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by Emile Vuillermoz "Le ballet à l'Académie Nationale de Musique et de Danse"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3990

    s3990

    • ARTIST: Paul Troubetzkoy (Italy, 1866-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Argentina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, solo
  • s1525

    s1525

    • TITLE OF WORK: You must have music for the rainy days as well. "His Master's Voice"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 20.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p0125

    p0125

    • TITLE OF WORK: Persian Mutrube (Mutrube persane)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
  • p2426

    p2426

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Java dancer (Java-Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood, painted and bronzed
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p3129

    p3129

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, ink brush and watercolor
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 27.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right "Nolde"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s1950

    s1950

    • ARTIST: Monika Dobeleit (Germany, 1900?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sword dance (Danse du sabre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • 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: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sword
  • p4077

    p4077

    • ARTIST: Johann Georg Platzer (Austria, 1704-1761)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchus and Ariadne in Naxos (Bacchus und Ariadne auf Naxos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1745
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany, Greece
  • s1342

    s1342

    • ARTIST: Bertel Thorvaldsen (Denmark, 1770-1848)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1804
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Denmark,
  • p8543

    p8543

    • TITLE OF WORK: Opera: "La Korrigane", ballet in two acts. The Breton fields. Lilez and the Korrigans (Opéra: "La Korrigane", ballet en deux actes. La lande bretonne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.1 x 31.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: "La Korrigane", ballet by Coppée and Mérante, music by Widor, decor by Lavaste jeune
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8567

    p8567

    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas entertainments at the Crystal Palace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 23.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0159

    s0159

    • ARTIST: Emmanuel Joseph Lauret (France, 1809-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Exotic dancer in Algiers (Danseuse exotique à Alger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.2 x 22.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Lauret aimé / alger 1856"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, Algiers
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Oriental
  • p9258

    p9258

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The middle of Lent. Children's afternoon in disguise. Farandole (La mi-carême. Une matinée enfantine en travesti. Farandole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 19.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, farandole, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: child, disguise
  • p2118

    p2118

    • ARTIST: Paul Renouard (France, 1845-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: First quadrille (Premier Quadrille)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4836

    s4836

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female ballet dancer in a solo figure
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belarus
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • s0785

    s0785

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Afghan frontier difficulty. A native sword dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 22.5
    • COMMENTS: Sketched by an officer with the British Boundary Commission
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Afghanistan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, male
    • KEYWORDS: fire, arm, sword, drum, shawm
  • p8087

    p8087

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijisnky and Tamara Karsavina in the ballet "Le spectre de la rose"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0929

    p0929

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancers at rest (Trois danceuses au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.2 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2678

    p2678

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancer facing front (Danseuse cambodgienne de face)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil, watercolor and black crayon gras
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
  • p7198

    p7198

    • ARTIST: William Simpson (U.K., 1823-1899) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bungra, or Khattuk dance, performed by the 20th Punjaub Infantry at Bala Murghab
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.2 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: With the Afghan Boundary Commission
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Afghanistan, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: military, weapon, knife, sword
  • s3390

    s3390

    • TITLE OF WORK: Silene and dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 250
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found at the ancient Thysdrus, now El Jem; Greco-Roman school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Tunisia, Greece, Roman
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s0090

    s0090

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches in Burmah: A "Poay", or Burmese play, at Meuhla
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.4 x 23.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burma, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p4563

    p4563

    • ARTIST: Jeronimus Vischer
    • TITLE OF WORK: Popular celebration in Basel (Volksfest in Basel)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and wash
    • DATE: 1598
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3966

    s3966

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr and maenad dancing. The Derveni krater
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze and silver
    • DATE: -370
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 90.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: The Derveni krater was found in tomb B at Derveni, near Thessaloniki, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: Maenad
  • s5388

    s5388

    • ARTIST: Albert von Keller (Germany, 1844-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Camilla Eibenschütz in the role of Murrhine in "Lysistrata" (Camilla Eibenschütz als Murrhine in "Lysistrata")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 72.5 x 49 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient Greece revival
    • DANCE FORM: revival Greek
    • KEYWORDS: theater, drama
  • s3386

    s3386

    • ARTIST: Charles-Félx Gir (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • s2184

    s2184

    • ARTIST: Vassilis Voulgaris (Greece, 19??-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, wood
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4448

    s4448

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Shéhérazade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p2809

    p2809

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: G. Mc Ghee as Herodes and M. Kauba as Salome in the opera "Salome"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
    • DATE: 1963
    • COMMENTS: Athens, Herodus Atticus Theater, 20/08/1963. Music by Richard Strauss, Frankfurt Opera.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, opera,
  • p9304

    p9304

    • ARTIST: Antoine Calbet (France, 1860-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal, red and white chalks, heightened with bodycolor
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed "La femme et le pantin no. 2, Ele achevait son bolero dans un mouvement de passion furieux et les provocations de ses jambes et son torse visaient quelqu'un au hasard dans la foul
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, bolero, Spanish dance
  • p8167

    p8167

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne": The Miller
    • 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
  • p0041

    p0041

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jane Avril dancing (Jane Avril dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on carton
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 85.5 x 45 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at upper center "H. Lautrec". The person in the background is William T. Warrener, a painter who posed for the poster "L'anglais au Moulin Rouge"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p0959

    p0959

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1954
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 62 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • KEYWORDS: Vallauris
  • p8321

    p8321

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "Les quatre saisons"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3853

    p3853

    • ARTIST: Andrea Bernieri (Italy, 1792-1849) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Ram-genve, that is ballerinas (Danza delle Ram-genve ossieno Ballerine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 18.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1791

    s1791

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Petrouchka. London Festival Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1989
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4930

    s4930

    • ARTIST: Jean-Frederic Schall (France, 1752-1825)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with flower ribbon in a park (La danseuse au ruban fleuri sur fond de parc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 24.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • s4166

    s4166

    • TITLE OF WORK: Court scene with musicians and dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Korea, South
    • DANCE FORM: court, popular, folk, traditional
  • p7095

    p7095

    • ARTIST: Jules Kossak (Poland, 1829-1899) (painting); E. Gorazdowski (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mountaineers' dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1800

    p1800

    • ARTIST: Valentin Serov (Russia, 1865-1911)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anna Pavlova in the ballet "Les Sylphides"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and chalk on canvas
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 2000 x 175 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by F. Chopin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p7303

    p7303

    • ARTIST: William Chappell (U.K., 1907-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "Coppélia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p2845

    p2845

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: T. Capouchili as Judith and L. Quail as Holophernes in the ballet "Judith"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1983
    • COMMENTS: Music by E. Varese, choreography by Martha Graham, Martha Graham Dance Company. Athens, Herod Atticus Theater, 29/06/1983.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p9280

    p9280

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flanders, 1564-1638)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants dancing around a maypole
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel transferred to canvas
    • DATE: 1610
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 75 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed P. BREUGHEL 16..
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: maypole
  • p9951

    p9951

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A rehearsal of "Coppelia". The class of Miss Zambelli. Grands sujets (Une répétition de "Coppelia". La classe de Mlle Zambelli -en sore- Grands sujets)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1937
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by Emile Vuillermoz "Le ballet à l'Académie Nationale de Musique et de Danse"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s3965

    s3965

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and pencil on canvas
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 74 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s1233

    s1233

    • TITLE OF WORK: Letters to Mary Gwenn. What every fairy knows
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 7.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the poem by Uncle Bogie
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • p2024

    p2024

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sally Gilmour in "Lady into fox"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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