The model for this figure was Joan Williamson, who also modelled for Great Expectations, Sea Rose and Gordine’s ballet figure, Carmen. The pose is similar to that of Dina, Aristide Maillol’s 1937 bronze of his muse Dina Vierny. Gordine perhaps saw the work at the Maillol retrospective exhibition in Paris that year. Maillol was one […]
Sylphide is part of Gordine’s Spirit of the Ballet series. The pose may derive from a performance of the ballet La Sylphide, danced by the Ballets de Champs-Elysées company and choreographed by Roland Petit. Gordine saw a performance of the ballet at the Winter Garden Theatre in London in June 1947. Her bronze was exhibited […]
The model for Flawless Crystal was Elizabeth Choy OBE (1910-2006), a Singaporean teacher and councillor who took an active role in the resistance during the Japanese occupation of Singapore during the Second World War, smuggling food, medicine and messages to prisoners of war in Changi Prison. As a result of these activities, she was captured […]
This work was first exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in London in 1949 and was probably part of Gordine’s Spirit of the Ballet series.
This small female figure of c.1955 is reminiscent of Gordine’s large female nude Iran/Goddess of Health.
This sculpture is part of Gordine’s Spirit of the Ballet series and was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in London in November 1949.
This is a reworked cast of the figure of the young boy from Gordine’s sculpture Mother and Child, 1962-63.
The model for this sculpture was George Plumb, a British swimming champion. Inspired by Debussy’s Prélude, the ballet L’Après-Midi d’un Faune, from which Gordine’s sculpture takes its name, was choreographed by the young dancer Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes. The company, which revolutionised ballet, was founded by Serge Diaghilev in Paris in 1909 and […]
This standing figure is reminiscent of a bronze torso of 1931, Torso of a Nymph, by the sculptor Aristide Maillol.
The head is related to that of Gordine’s Javanese Dancer, a major female nude figure of the same year. The model is unknown. There are two editions in the Dorich House collection, in olive green and light green patinas.
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