How does this artwork elucidate its Artist?
Dora Gordine was born in Latvia in 1895.  She was raised in Estonia and St. Petersburg, and lived the majority of her adult life in London at Dorich House.Gordine was a successful artist throughout the 1940s and 1950s, exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy and doing many sculptural portraits for members of London society.  She also traveled and lectured on multiple occasions in the United States.  Her career ended in the 1970s and she died in 1991.
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