About the artist:
Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff (Владимир Григорьевич Третчиков, 26 December [O.S. 13 December] 1913, Petropavlovsk, Russian Empire, now Petropavl in Kazakhstan– 26 August 2006, Cape Town, South Africa) was an artist whose painting Chinese Girl, popularly known as The Green Lady, is one of the best-selling art prints of the twentieth century.
Tretchikoff was a self-taught artist who painted realistic figures, portraits, still life, and animals, with subjects often inspired by his early life in China, Singapore and Indonesia, and later life in South Africa. While his work was immensely popular with the general public, it is often seen by art critics as the epitome of kitsch (indeed, he was nicknamed the "King of Kitsch"). He worked in oil, watercolour, ink, charcoal and pencil but is best known for those works turned into reproduction prints.
About this painting:
When Tretchikoff met Mlle. Francoise Hardy during her tour of South Africa, he realised that she was just the right model to pose for the subject he had long wanted to paint. Of this canvas the artist says: "It was inspired by the knowledge that there is a rainy day in every young girl's life, a day when she feels insecure, imprisoned within herself, and the world seems wet and bleak." Posed by Francoise Hardy.
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