France
Preiss, Ferdinand: The flame leaper
1920
Sculpture, cold-painted bronze
ivory and amber approximately
36 cm height.
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de:
Chocolate dancing
(Chocolat dansant) 1896.
Drawing, gouache. France, Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec.
Chocolat was the nickname of a negro who was the partner
of the clown Footit in the Nouveau Cirque of Paris.
Chord dance (La danse de corde)
1750 approximately, Print. France
Matisse, Henri: Acrobatic dancer
(Danseuse acrobate)
1931 approximately.
Print, lithograph in sanguine. 37 x 33.8 cm.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France.|
Sketches executed for an album to be called
“Danseuses acrobates” with texts by Colette,
that was never published.
Matisse, Henri: Acrobatic dancer
(Danseuse acrobate)
1931 approximately
Print, lithograph in sanguine. 38 x 29.7 cm.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France.
Sketches executed for an album to be called
“Danseuses acrobates” with texts by Colette,
that was never published.
Matisse, Henri: Acrobatic dancer
(Danseuse acrobate)
1931 approximately
Print, lithograph in sanguine 43 x 34 cm.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France.
Sketches executed for an album to be called
“Danseuses acrobates” with texts by Colette,
that was never published.
Matisse, Henri: Acrobatic dancer
(Danseuse acrobate) 1931 approximately
Print, lithograph in sanguine 25.9 x 24.7 cm.
Bibliothèque Nationale Paris,France.
Sketches executed for an album to be called
“Danseuses acrobates” with texts by Colette,
that was never published.
Seurat, Georges: Dancing Street Acrobats (Saltimbanques dansant)
1886 approximately.
Drawing, Conté pencil, 24.7 x 31.2 cm.
Japan, Nichido Museum Foundation.
Léger, Fernand: Circus (Cirque)
1950, Print, lithograph, color, 42 x 32 cm.
Sheet from a book of 61 lithographs, published in 1950
Female juggler
Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color.1050 approximately. France, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.
Copy of an earlier work. The figure is designed above an Alleluia. Tropaire de Saint-Martial de Limoges.
Marie, Adrien: Miss Aenea, the aerial dancer, in the
ballet of the “Golden fly” (Aenea, la danseuse aérienne,
dans le ballet de la “Mouche d’or”) 1880 Drawing Print 25.5 x 21.5 cm Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis Theater.
Circus dancers and other circus folk with animals, 1830 approximately. Print, lithograph, color.
Golden fly (La mouche d’or)
1880. Print, woodcut. 26 x 22 cm. Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Carrére, F. Oi.: Dancer among knives
1919. Sculpture, bronze on a marble plinth, light and dark brown patination. 56 cm height .
The circus people behind their huts-The rehearsal
(Les saltimbanques derrière leurs baraques – La répétition) 1869, Print, woodcut, 9 x 15 cm. Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis. L’Illustration. Paris, 1869, p. 61. Original
Brayer, Yves : The dancer’s kiss
(Le baiser de la danseuse) 1930 approximately, Painting, oil on canvas. 35 x 24 cm. Signed at lower left « France circus Drouot-Montaigne ».
Marie, Adrien: (drawing) “The daughter of fire”
new exercise by Miss Aenea, the “Mouche d’or”, in “Pilules du Diable”, at the Châtelet Theater”
(“La fille du feu”, nouvel exercice de Miss Aenea, la “Mouche d’or”, dans les “Pilules du Diable” 1880.
Print, wood, 23 x 15 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis.
The aerial dancer Miss Aenea dancing in the middle of a ray of electrical light France. Le Monde Illustré, 1224. Paris, 11/09/1880, p. 160. Original.
Rouault, Georges: Parade
1930. Print, aquatint printed in colors,30.5 x 27 cm. From a total edition of 270, executed for André Suarès’ unoublished “Cirque”
Colinet, Claire Jeanne Roberte: Dancing girl (Danseuse). 1920 approximately. Sculpture, bronze, pale green/yellow and gilt patination, on an onyx plinth
Rouault, Georges: The ballarinas
(Les ballerines) 1934, Print, aquatint printed in colors. 31.4 x 20.4 cm. From a total edition of 280 for the “”Cirque de l’Etoile Filante”, published by Vollard in 1938.
Olympic Circus Pas styrien by Mr. Ginezelli and Miss Adélaοde
(Cirque Olympique- Pas styrien, par M. Ginezelli et mademoiselle Adélaοde) 1844, Print 13.5 x 16 cm Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis.
Prax, Valentine : Dancers and jugglers
(Danseuses et saltimbanques)
1920 approximately. Painting, oil on glass, 60 x 46 cm.
Signed at lower left.
Gray, Henry :Loïe Fuller, Serpentine dancer at the Winter Circus by Loïe Fuller
(Danseuse serpentine, Cirque d’Hiver. Loïe Fuller)
1894, Print, lithograph, color, poster.
Acrobatic show inspired by the serpentine dance of Loïe Fuller.