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VLADIMIR TRETCHIKOFF Artist Painter - Biography - Prints for sale - Auction prices for original paintings - Google Picture Gallery - Tretchikoff on Wikipedia - Books about Tretchikoff - Death - Obituary
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VLADIMIR GRIEGOROVICH TRETCHIKOFF was born in 1913 in Siberia, Russia. He was a self taught artist who shot to international fame with his portrait "Chinese Girl", now better known as the Green Lady and/or the Mona Lisa of Kitsch, to be the World's best selling print ever. Read the full story of the Green lady: The Tretchikoff Green Lady: Full story.
Perhaps his second most famous image is Balinese Girl which is arguably even more haunting and rated much more collectable since it is rarer. A personally signed version is extremely rare.
Tretchikoff held his first solo exhibition in Shanghai in 1933 and exhibited extensively worldwide thereafter, holding more than 30 major shows until his deat Hi I am artist Lillian Gray and I have someone you need to meet: South African artist Vladimir Tretchikoff. Tretchikoff was an artist whose painting Chinese Girl, popularly known as the Green Lady, is one of the best-selling art prints of the 20th century. His most famous artworks include Chinese Girl, Mrs Wong and the Balinese Girl but he was sneered at by the elitist art world and often called the ‘King of Kitsch’ but Tretchikoff has made a fortune by defying the art establishment. He was one of the first pop stars of the art world and even though art critics hated him he has broken sales and attendance records. Let’s quickly look at the dates Tretchikoff lived 1913-2006. By looking at these dates we gather that he lived for a long long time and he survived quite a lot: World War One; The Great Depression; World War Two; the 50’s; the 60’s; Apartheid rule in South Africa; the neon 80’s; the liberation of South Africa with Nelson Mandela; the establishment of the rainbow nati 1952 painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff Chinese Girl (often popularly known as The Green Lady) is a 1952 painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff. Mass-produced prints of the work in subsequent years were among the best-selling of the twentieth century.[1] The painting is of a Chinese young woman and is best known for the unusual skin tone used for her face — a blue-green colour, which gives the painting its popular name The Green Lady. Though Tretchikoff maintained that the first version of this painting had been destroyed in Cape Town and he painted a new version during his 1953 tour of the US, researchers have found no proof of this claim.[1] The original sold for £982,050 at Bonhams auction house in London on 20 March 2013. It was purchased by British jeweller Laurence Graff.[2] Since 30 November the same year, it has been on public display at Delaire Graff Estate near Stellenbosch, South Africa.[3] Some scenes of Alfred Hitchcock's film Frenzy (1972) show portraits of the model Monika Sing-Lee (late
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