Atalanta, 1946-47
![Dora Gordine, Atalanta, bronze, 1946-7](https://www.dorichhousemuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2016/02/CC0321-e1455280606678.jpg)
In ancient Greek myth Atalanta was the daughter of Lasus and Clymene. In a 1949 issue of the art journal Apollo, Mary Sorrell described the figure as ‘wonderfully alive in her full sculptural grace’. Dame Freya Stark bought a cast of the work in the 1950s.