- 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
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
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