Not on display
- Artist
- Dora Gordine 1895–1991
- Medium
- Bronze on wooden base
- Dimensions
- Object: 350 × 222 × 336 mm, 10.5 kg
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Mrs Rhoda Symons 1937
- Reference
- N04860
Display caption
This head also comes from Gordine’s series of sculptures that represent the physiognomic characteristics of different races. When Gordine held an exhibition of her work in London in 1938, she was praised by poet and critic Arthur Symons: ‘Her profound sense of pure form in sculpture, heedless alike of realism and of exaggerated abstraction, is united with the subtlest delicacy of modelling, and these qualities endow her bronzes with abnormal power.’ This work was bequeathed to Tate by Symons’ wife, Rhoda.
Dora Gordine was born in St. Petersburg in 1906 and died in London in 1991.
Gallery label, August 2004
Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you.
Catalogue entry
N04860 A MALAY SULTANA 1933
Inscr. ‘Dora Gordine 1/8’ on back of head.
Bronze, 10 3/4×8 3/4×13 3/4 (27×22×35), on black marble base, 3×7 1/2×6 1/4 (7×19×16).
Bequeathed by Mrs Rhoda Symons 1937.
Exh:
Leicester Galleries, July 1933 (10).
Lit: E. H. Ramsden, Sculpture: Theme and Variations, 1953, p.23, repr. pl.38a.
Modelled in the Malay Peninsula in 1933 and cast in Paris. Other casts belong to the City Hall, Singapore, Richard Prichard, London, and the artist.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
Explore
- people(35,021)
- body(4,877)
-
- head / face(2,503)
- ethnicity(4,555)
-
- Asian(115)
- nationality(18,146)
-
- Malaysian(1)
- royalty and social rank(1,833)
You might like
-
Dora Gordine Mongolian Head
1928 -
Dora Gordine Javanese Head
1931 -
Dora Gordine Guadaloupe Head/Negress
1928 -
Boris Anrep Nude and Ruins
1944 -
Alexandre Jacovleff A Turkoman
1931 -
Antoine Pevsner Head
c.1923–4 -
Alexandre Jacovleff A Coolie
1931 -
Alexandre Jacovleff An Arm and a Hand
c.1933–8 -
Alexandre Jacovleff Female Torso
c.1933–8 -
Alexandre Jacovleff Seated Model
c.1933–8 -
Eugène Berman The Jug on the Window
1934 -
Alexandre Jacovleff Neptune and Andromeda
c.1937–8 -
Alexandre Jacovleff Recumbent Model
c.1933–8 -
Alexandre Jacovleff Crouching Model from the Front
c.1933–8 -
Alexandre Jacovleff Reclining Model
c.1933–8