Dora Gordine F.R.B.S.
1906 – 1991

Dora Gordine was born1906, some documentation says she was born in St. Petersburg and some say she was born in Estonia. She was a sculptor whose musical studies would eventually translate to a classic and fluid visual aesthetic that afforded her a long successful career in the arts.

Gordine received her education in Paris during the 1920’s and was greatly influenced and encouraged by renowned French sculptor Aristide Maillol.

Gordine began exhibiting in Paris in 1926 and had her first solo exhibition in the London Leicester Galleries in 1928. Her travels lead to the Far East between 1929 and 1935 before marrying Richard Hare in 1936. The couple moved to Richmond where Gordine designed the Dorich House (their home and studio). In 1947 she and her husband spent time in Hollywood and would later return to the United States in 1959 for a visit to Indiana. During this time Gordine continued to work and give lectures.

Commissions and exhibitions include a mural painting for the British Pavilion at the Decorative Arts Exhibition in 1925; the Societé des Beaux-Arts, Salon des Tuileries, Royal Academy and Society of Portrait Sculptors; the Singapore Town Hall between 1930-35; the Holloway Prison and Westminster Welfare Centre. In 1938 and 1949 Gordine was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Gordine’s style is in the romantic tradition of Maillol and Rodin. Her treatment of the human form both expressive and impressionistic.

Gordine is represented is several museums including the permanent collection of the Tate Modern Museum and the Singapore Museum of Art.

Dora Gordine died in 1991.