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Face to face with the woman who is Tretchi's Chinese Girl" at Mail & Guardian "'Chinese Girl': The Mona Lisa of kitsch" at The Independent "'I never made money from the Green Lady,' says Tretchikoff's model" at The Guardian "Gaze of the Green Lady" at BBC News "I was the Chinese Girl in Tretchikoff's painting" BBC News.
Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff (Владимир Григорьевич Третчиков, 26 December [O.S. 13 December] 1913, Petropavlovsk, Russian Empire, now Petropavl in Kazakhstan [1] – 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.
She has exhibited in galleries, [7] art [1] spaces, [8] [9] and art festivals [6] [10] around the Greater Washington, DC region [11] and the Mid Atlantic. Several of her paintings have also been reproduced as book [12] and journal covers. [13] [14] In 2011 The Atlantic described her paintings as "simply breathtaking."
Occupying the foreground of the painting, the first woman is dressed in a patterned white dress; she is lying on her stomach, her bare head rests on a cloth, and her eyes are half-closed. The second woman wears a red dress and holds a bouquet of flowers. Her head, covered with a hat, leans on her hand, while she looks away, towards the water.
Chang Ch'ung-ho or Zhang Chonghe (1914–2015), Chinese-American poet, painter, calligrapher; Georgette Chen (1906-1993), Chinese-Singaporean modern art painter; Chen Jin (1907-1998), first Taiwanese painter to achieve national recognition; Chen Ke (born 1978), painter; Movana Chen (born 1975), paper knitting artist
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A series of her paintings depict young, school-aged Chinese girls, usually skimpily dressed in the bath or lying in bed. The girls in her paintings almost always look directly at the viewers, some innocent-looking, some with a confrontational gaze. [8] Another series of her works involves photographs of her pregnant body.
In one painting, a child sits, mouth wide open, as a worker in white medical garb extends a long cotton swab toward her tonsils. Zeng has spent much of his life in service to the Chinese state ...