Blue Dancer (Danseuse Bleue) is a major work of Severini's, who devoted many paintings to the world of theatre, dance and night-life in the big city. The ballet impressions of anEdgar Degas (1834-1917) and the acutely observed milieu studies of a Henri de Toulouse-Lautrect (1864-1901) were now supereseded by a Futurist view which, in Severini's case, would have been unthinkable without the French Cubism of Pablo Picassoand George Braque. Severiniideally utilized the means of the Futuristic aesthetic to create pictorial correspondences for the movement and energy of the dance.
