Title of Artwork: “Chinese Girl. The Green Lady”
Artwork by Vladimir Tretchikoff
Year Created 1952
Summary of Chinese Girl. The Green Lady
Vladimir Tretchikoff’s 1952 painting, Chinese Girl (also known as The Green Lady), is a well-known work of art. Prints of the art produced in the following years were among the most popular of the twentieth century. As a result of the unique skin tone utilised for her face—a blue-green colour—the artwork has been dubbed “The Green Lady” by many.
However, despite Tretchikoff’s allegation that the original artwork was destroyed in Cape Town, scholars have found no evidence to support this claim.
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At Bonhams auction house in London, the original was sold for £982,050 on March 20, 2013. British jeweller Laurence Graff purchased it. Public display began at Delaire Graff Estate near Stellenbosch on November 30 of the same year.
This and other Tretchikoff portraits of the model Monika Sing-Lee appear in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1972 thriller Frenzy. Also, Chumbawamba used it as the front cover for their 1990s album Slap!
Monika Sing-Lee, who was then twenty years old and of European origin, was the victim of this attack. As Pon-Su-San, she was introduced to Tretchikoff by Masha Arsenyeva, a Russian dancer, while working in her uncle’s launderette in Cape Town. A South African man named Pon-Su-San died on June 14, 2017.
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En.wikipedia.org, https://en.wikipedia.org/.
