Pastel Woman Portrait By Spanish Painter Enrique Dorda Y Rodriguez

Portrait of a woman (retrato de dama)
By Enrique Dorda y Rodriguez (1872 Leon, Castilla-1944 New York)
Pastel, signed and dated lower right: E.Dorda 1926
(Firmado y fechado "E.Dorda 1926" abajo a la derecha) In its original old oval frame.
59.1 x 48.3 cm cm at sight
71 x 60.5 cm with frame
Dorda was one of the best pastel portrait painters of his time. After a brief stay in Havana in 1927, he settled in New York where he acquired a great reputation as a portraitist; among his models, opera singers such as Lucrezia Bori, and Hollywood stars such as Greta Garbo, Marlène Dietrich or Katherine Hepburn. Dorda exhibited in 1930 at the Galerie Chambrun, Madison Avenue, New York. An important collection of his works is kept at the Museum of the City of Leon, Spain (Maria Conception Gago Montilla Collection) and many pastel portraits are in private collections.
Literature: Pablo Monserrat Gago: el pintor Enrique Dorda, de Leon a Nueva York, Museo de Leon. Menoslobos taller editorial Espana 2018.
ISBN: 978-84-948087-2-2.