Raoul Dufy and Bianchini-Férier
La Danse
1913
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 50 x 47 1/2 in. (127 x 120.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchased by the Friends of the American Wing in Memory of Dena S. Katzenberg, Consultant Curator of Textiles, 1969-2000
Object Number
2000.384
The printed panel of plain woven cotton depicts a sailor with an anchor tattoo dancing with a native woman in a head wrap with large hoop earrings amongst large tropical leaves. Beside them is a bare-chested native man, wearing a straw hat and playing a concertina. In the background is a ship. The ground is cream or natural, block printed in brick red. The repeat is approximately 17'H x 16-1/8'W. The sides are selvages and the top and bottom are cut. The lower left corner has been cut away.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2000; Cora Ginsburg.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New on View," June 19 - October 6, 2002
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Art of Music from the Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, January 8, 2005 - February 26, 2005; The Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, 2005 - November 20, 2005; The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, December 9, 2005 - February 5, 2006; Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, February 15, 2006 - April 9, 2006
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Art of Music from the Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, January 8, 2005 - February 26, 2005; The Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, 2005 - November 20, 2005; The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, December 9, 2005 - February 5, 2006; Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, February 15, 2006 - April 9, 2006
