The cast bronze artwork was created in 1964 and portrays a woman kneeling beside a small child, both figures displaying joyful poses and expressions.

The second figure, a small, nude boy, stands just behind the mother's right foot, angled toward the proper left of the artwork.

Cast into lowest edge of the mother’s skirt, the artist’s signature and edition number can be found.

[1] The original casting of Mother and Child was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth of England to adorn the entrance of the Royal Marsden Cancer Centre in Sutton, Surrey.

She was raised in Estonia and St. Petersburg, and lived the majority of her adult life in London at Dorich House.

[4] 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.