Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p1289

    p1289

    • ARTIST: Henri Rousseau (France, 1875-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The centenary of Independence (Le centenaire de l'Indépendance)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 112 x 156.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p5405

    p5405

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Scotch reel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, reel
  • s5213

    s5213

    • ARTIST: Vicente Escudero (Spain, 1892-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: V.E. Sketch by Vicente Escudero
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s2748

    s2748

    • ARTIST: G. Vallon
    • TITLE OF WORK: Universal Brother in Grande Passacaille by J.-S. Bach (Le Frère Universel dans La Grande Passacaille de J.-S. Bach)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sanguine
    • DATE: 1949
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8189

    p8189

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne": An Old Negro
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed: Un vieux nègre, cheveux et barbe blanches (An old negro, white hair and beard)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3413

    p3413

    • ARTIST: Matthäus Zasinger (Germany, 1477-?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in the court of Albrecht IV of Bavaria, in Munich
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1500
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 31 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed MZ and dated 1500
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p7866

    p7866

    • 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: Drawing, ink and wash
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0267

    s0267

    • ARTIST: Amédée Forestier (France, 1854-1930) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A reverie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.4 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Hushed are the halls where once the Christmas revels resounded... "
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: tree
  • s4656

    s4656

    • ARTIST: M. M. Vienne; M. Munk
    • TITLE OF WORK: Four girls dancing in closed circle by the sea
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: 257
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1524

    s1524

    • ARTIST: Lewis Baumer (U.K., 1870-1963) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: First appearance of the beautiful new soap Erasmic Peerless White
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement, bowing
  • p5368

    p5368

    • ARTIST: Malvina Hoffman (U.S.A., 1885-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, gilt plaster
    • DATE: 1931
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s0579

    s0579

    • ARTIST: Carl Mücke (Poland/Germany, 1806-1891) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Little Pepita
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.8 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: child, accordion
  • s2655

    s2655

    • ARTIST: Edmond Morin (France, 1824-1882) (drawing); H. Linton (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: New quadrille dance following the banquet offered to Miss Taglioni by the choreographic artists of the Opera
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 32.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, stage
    • KEYWORDS: collage, portrait
  • p7769

    p7769

    • ARTIST: Leonor Fini (Argentina, 1907-1996)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "Les demoiselles de la nuit"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1948
    • COMMENTS: "Les demoiselles de la nuit", a ballet on music by Jean Françaix, choreography by Roland Petit, story by Jean Anouilh, costumes by Leonor Fini. Opening night on 21/05/1948 in the Théâtre Marigny, Pari
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4906

    p4906

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet of the four nations (Le ballet des quatre nations)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: Annual ball of the Royal Academy of Music for the benefit of the retirement fund of the artists and employees of the Opera.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0475

    p0475

    • ARTIST: Periklis Vyzantios (Greece, 1893-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Oceanides
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 80 cm
    • COMMENTS: Donated by his children, Marilena Liakopoulou and Dikos Vyzantios. Ispired by the Delphic Feasts organized by Angelos Sikelianos and Eva Palmer.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • p7162

    p7162

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni the Younger in the ballet "Thea", by Paolo Taglioni
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1853
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3919

    p3919

    • TITLE OF WORK: Painted human figures which seem to be dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -5000
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil
  • s3326

    s3326

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 46 x 38 cm
    • COMMENTS: Study for a larger work, which later disappeared
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: light, veils, drapery
  • s1680

    s1680

    • ARTIST: Jean "PAL" Paléologue (Romania, 1860-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Every evening La Belle Otero. Folies-Bergère (Tous les soirs La Belle Otero. Folies-Bergère)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, stage
    • KEYWORDS: Otero
  • s2257

    s2257

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff in "Tanz des barocken Bacchus", Münchener Pressefest 1913 - 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p6289

    p6289

    • ARTIST: Erich Heckel (Germany, 1883-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer 1 - Varieté (Tänzerin 1 - Varieté)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 13.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p2328

    p2328

    • TITLE OF WORK: Detail of the "Dancers' fresco"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -5500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Turkey
  • s4009

    s4009

    • TITLE OF WORK: Drums of the South Seas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hawaii, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: hula, traditional, popular
  • s4901

    s4901

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Schloth (Switzerland, 1818-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchant with tambourine (Bacchante au tambourin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, white Carrara marble
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 137 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed on the base, situated in Rome and dated 1874.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • p8472

    p8472

    • TITLE OF WORK: Charity ball given at Pera, Istambul (Bal de charité donné à Péra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: The ball was organized by Lord Stafford of Redcliffe, ambassador to the Sublime Porte
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Istanbul
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s5377

    s5377

    • ARTIST: Sir Edward John Poynter (U.K., 1836-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Ionian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Se also the print after this painting.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: Greek dance, solo
  • s3313

    s3313

    • ARTIST: Pierre Roche or Fernand Massignon (France, 1855-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller, a human being made of light, gold and gauze (Loïe Fuller, un être qui n'était que lumière, or et gaze)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, medal, plaster
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.3 cm dia.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • p9927

    p9927

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France, 1841-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with castanets (Danseuse aux castagnettes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.5 x 26.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: This painting is a study for another painting, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • p3876

    p3876

    • ARTIST: Edouard Malouze
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Parisian tango (Le tango parisien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, couple, ballroom
  • p4126

    p4126

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumed ball given by Her Majesty the Empress on Monday 9 February - The Bees' Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 48 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bal costumé donné par Sa Majesté l'Impératrice, le lundi 9 février - Le ballet des abeilles
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5369

    s5369

    • ARTIST: Sir William Russell Flint (U.K., 1880-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Dancing Lesson: Ladies of Old Castile Receiving Instruction from Gipsies
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1961
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, solo
  • s3527

    s3527

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar and Nina Vyroubova in the ballet "Fourberies"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1952
    • COMMENTS: "Fourberies", a ballet presented on 27/02/1952 at the Paris Opéra
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
  • p7517

    p7517

    • ARTIST: Brian Pinkney (U.S.A., 1961-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alvin Ailey at Lester Horton's Dance School
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s3133

    s3133

    • ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing) & Vierge (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Bamboula. "Paul and Virginia", an opera in three acts and six scenes, lyrics by Mr. Michel Barbier and Mr. Carré, music by Mr. Victor Massé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 5.5 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Bamboula
  • p2696

    p2696

    • ARTIST: Viktor Stretti (Czech Republic, 1878-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Czech Republic
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2868

    p2868

    • ARTIST: Valim
    • TITLE OF WORK: Slovakian folk dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Slovakia
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s1956

    s1956

    • ARTIST: Ger Maas (Luxemburg, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Triumphs: The unicorn (Trionfi: La licorne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sérigraphie
    • 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: Luxemburg
  • s5615

    s5615

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing men or satyrs. Terracotta dinos (deep round-bottomed bowl)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, terracotta black-figure vase
    • DATE: -530
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.1 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Etruscan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
  • p5300

    p5300

    • ARTIST: Peter Dahl (Sweden, 1934-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: On the carpet (Över transmattan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1987
    • DIMENSIONS: 200 x 150 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p0341

    p0341

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of a dancer (Etude de danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7510

    p7510

    • ARTIST: Majeska
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7293

    p7293

    • ARTIST: Roger Furse (U.K., 1903-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The prospect before us": A Dancer and A Lawyer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1940
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3499

    p3499

    • ARTIST: Yves Brayer (France, 1907-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Joan de Zarissa"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1942
    • COMMENTS: Music by Werner Egk (1901 Augsburg, Germany)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9174

    p9174

    • ARTIST: Josep Maria Sert i Badia (Spain, 1874-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les astuces féminines". Scene 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • COMMENTS: "Les astuces féminines", opera-ballet in 3 scenes by the Ballets Russes. Music by D. Canova arranged by O. Respighi; choreography by L. Massine; scenery and costumes by José-Maria Sert.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9511

    p9511

    • ARTIST: Jean Hanau (France, 1899-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masked girl (Jeune fille au masque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1935
    • DIMENSIONS: 91 x 72 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s1207

    s1207

    • ARTIST: captain Dupouy (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Upa-Upa, Tahitian dance (Les Upa-Upa, danse ta?tienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by Ernest Charton
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Tahiti, Polynesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • p7784

    p7784

    • TITLE OF WORK: The fox festival in Japan (Das Fuchsfest in Japan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.1 x 31.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6889

    p6889

    • ARTIST: Georges Lepape (France, 1887-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Schéhérazade" at the Théâtre du Châtelet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Russia, Poland,
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
  • p2915

    p2915

    • TITLE OF WORK: Madagascar dance (Danse malgache)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.4 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Thés Sarah de Chine, Bernhard & Co., Levallois-Perret, France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Madagascar, France,

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