This is the Chinese Girl, painted by Vladimir
Tretchikoff in 1952.
The artist Vladimir
Tretchikoff vividly described the Cape Town art scene as 'riddled with bitchiness like a Gorgonzola with penicillin'.
THIS WEEK'S CRUSH
TRETCHIKOFF ZULU GIRL LAMPSHADE, PS80, GRAHAM AND GREEN This is a striking picture of a beautiful woman.
In 2012, the late South African painter Vladimir Griegorovich
Tretchikoff's painting Red Jacket, which had been expected to sell for around $50,000, sold for five times as much, at 337 [pounds sterling], 250 at Bonhams.
They also included The Chinese Girl by the late Russian artist Vladimir
Tretchikoff. Once described as ''the Mona Lisa of kitsch'', the original 1950s painting of a then 17-year-old Cape Town laundry worker called Monika Sing-Lee was recently sold for almost PS1 million - or PS1 for every British living room wall it is estimated to have hung on.
Vladimir
Tretchikoff's Chinese Lady (aka "The Green Lady") gracing the cover is one of the best-selling art prints.
Choosing quality is key - with furniture designers like Ib Kofod-Larsen or
Tretchikoff paintings being particularly sought after.
The sale also features works by 20th century Australian and South African artists, and one of the most interesting lots for me among these is an oil painting by Vladimir
Tretchikoff called Water Lily.
It certainly did in art critics when they saw Vladimir
Tretchikoff's Chinese Green Girl, but their tight, overheated world has little bearing on public taste, who reacted with an awesome tidal wave of approval.
ARTIST Vladimir
Tretchikoff, whose painting Chinese Girl (1950), is believed to be the best-selling print of all time, has died.
LONDON--Rosenstiel's recently re-published Vladimir
Tretchikoff's "Green Lady" According to the company, the print was a symbol of its era, and millions of copies were sold in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
A classic framed print of the Chinese Girl by
Tretchikoff is worth pounds 50-pounds 75.