Saturday, March 21, 2020

Painted Dancers

Isabel Rawsthorne
Svetlana Beriosova - Study of a Ballet Dancer
ca. 1960
gouache and watercolour on paper
Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex

Francis Cadell
Dancer (Nijinsky as Faun)
ca. 1915
oil on board
Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries

Henri Fantin-Latour
The Dance
1898
oil on canvas
Glasgow Museums

John Luke
The Three Dancers
1945
oil and tempera on canvas, mounted on panel
Ulster Museum, Belfast

M. Gluck
LĂ©onide Massine waiting for his cue in On with the Dance
1925
oil on canvas
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

In and Out

I would consider
          re-heating the tweezers
if I had the chance,
          because, as ducks say
in Ghana, "broccoli
          reversal gets priority."

I would consider
          re-heating the tweezers
if Tu Fu and Cleopatra
          had a son named Sel.
I have the chance
          because, as ducks say,
"who was generated
          in Old Ironsides, AK?"
In Ghana, broccoli
          reversal gets priority
and grows up to be
          a pie dish dismisser.

Tu Fu and Cleopatra
          had a son named Sel
who was generated
          in Old Ironsides, AK.
He grew up to be
          a pie dish dismisser.

– Linda Kunhardt (2010)

Hans Feibusch
Men and Satyrs Dancing
1954
oil on canvas
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Sussex

Jacob Kramer
Study of a Ballet Dancer preparing for a Rehearsal
1930
oil on canvas
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull

Peter Nardini
Scottish Ballet in Rehearsal
ca. 1980
oil on canvas
Theatre Royal, Glasgow

John Lessore
Moguls and Starlets, Yellow Tent I 
1993
oil on canvas
Government Art Collection, London

Paul Richards
Dancer
ca. 1990
acrylic on paper
Tavistock Centre, London

Francis Edwin Hodge
Preparation for the Ballet
ca. 1935
oil on canvas
Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Anthony Fry
Dance White
1960
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Robert Colquhoun
Dancers Rehearsing
1958
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Michael Ayrton
Slow Dance for the Nativity
1958
oil on board
Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden, Tyne and Wear

George William Pinder
The Dance
1964
oil on board
Glasgow Museums