Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Acrobat


Hydrian Vase (340 BC)
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Leonard Defrance - Mariana Rossi, the Rope Dancer (ca. 1775)
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The Shirin Painter - Girl Acrobat Balancing on a Knife (ca. 1840)
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Gustave Doré - Entertainers (1874)
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Edgar Degas - Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879)
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (1879)
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Félicien Rops - Rehearsal (1881)
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - High Wire Acrobat (ca. 1885)
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Raja Ravi Varma - Lady Juggler (ca. 1890)
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Jean Louis Forain - Tightrope Walker (1895)
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Frederic Leighton - Antique Juggling Girl (1896)
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Henryk Siemiradzki - Tightrope Walker at Capri (1898)
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William Glackens - Hammerstein's Roof Garden (1901)
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Pablo Picasso - Girl on the Ball (1905)
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Wilhelm Simmler - On the High Wire (ca. 1910)
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Karoly Ferenczy (1912)
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August Macke - Tightrope Walker (1913)
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Raoul Duffy - Trapeze Artists (1922)
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Jean Metzinger - Acrobat on a White Horse
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Gustave De Smet (ca. 1927)
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René Magritte - The Acrobat's Exercises (1928)
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Marc Chagall (1930)
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Frank Mechau (1930)
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Glyn Philpot (undated)
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Unknown Illustrator - Trapeze Artists
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Two Acrobats (1933)
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Laura Knight - Circus Matinee (1938)
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Max Beckmann (detail, 1939)
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Fernand Leger - Acrobats in Grey (1944)
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Marino Marini - Family of Acrobats (1954)
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Pyke Koch (ca. 1964)
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Henry Moore - High Wire Walkers (1975)
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George Mazilu (2002)
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Susan Hargrove (undated)
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Julie Marshall (undated)
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Cesar Santos - Juggler (2010s)
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Shota Voskayan (2010)
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Peregrine Roskilly (2012)
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