Fonds DG - Papers of Dora Gordine

This is a small collection consisting of 5 items:

• Ars Asiatica, 1931, vol. XVI, Les Collections Khmeres du Musee Albert Sarraut a Phnom-Penh, Par George Groslier. Inside front cover bears inscription "Richard Hare, Dorich House, Kingston Vale, SW15".
• A sheet of paper marked "Slides, Ars Asiatica" with plate details in the same hand.
• A receipt from Lloyds Bank to Hon. Mrs. D.G. Hare.
• A loose plate with photograph of Buddha from Pangkalan, Ipoh, Perak".
• A black & white photograph inscribed on verso with "Malay Head, Dora Gordine, Town Hall, Singapore".

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The Royal Asiatic Society holds within its Collections: Bronze Sculpture of the head of Sir Richard Winstedt (1878-1966) by Dora Gordine (Head Catalogue No.02.005). Winstedt was a colonial administrator, Professor of Malay at SOAS, University of London, and President of the Royal Asiatic Society. The sculpture, created in 1943-44, is 1/4, black patina and was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of London in May 1944. The circumstances of its acquisition by the RAS is unknown. Portrait of Professor Charles A. Storey, signed in pencil by Dora Gordine. The portrait is 60.5 x 49 cm and dates to c.1960. The circumstances of its acquisition by the RAS are unknown but it probably came into the Society after Storey's death in 1967 when he bequeathed his estate to the Society.

Dora Gordine was invited by Sir Richard Winstedt to lecture at the Royal Asiatic Society. Some of these lectures became articles in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: The Beauty of Indian Sculpture , JRAS, 1941, pp.42-48 with 7 plates A Lecture on the Sculpture of Indochina, Siam and Java , JRAS, 1942, pp. 132-138 with 5 plates.

Dora Gordine further contributed to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society with a series of short articles called Masterpieces of Oriental Art which appeared in the JRAS between 1943 and 1947.

The RAS Library holds a copy of Dora Gordine: Sculptor, Artist, Designer by Jonathan Black and Brenda Martin, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2007 in which the Richard Winstedt sculpture is listed.