Apple Li The Newly Installed Goddess Of The Orient
Apple Li The Newly Installed Goddess Of The Orient
Chinese Girl
| Artist | Vladimir Tretchikoff |
|---|---|
| Year | 1950 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
The Chinese Girl (often popularly known as The Green Lady) is a 1950 painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff. It became one of the world's most popular paintings when made into print in the 1960s and 1970s, and is one of the world's best-selling art prints. The painting is of a Chinesegirl 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". The model was the daughter of a restaurant owner Tretchikoff met in San Francisco - the painting is Tretchikoff's second variation on the theme, after the first (using a different model) was destroyed in a robbery at the artist's studio in South Africa.
[edit]Popular culture
This painting can be seen hanging in the background of an animated living room in the music video for the song 'Young Folks' by Peter Bjorn & John. It may also be seen adorning the living room of Bob Rusk, the killer in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film, Frenzy. It can also be seen in several Monty Python TV episodes; in a skit where a door-to-door documentary presenter describes the lurid sex lives of molluscs, and in an evening with the cheap laughs, where a moustache is painted on it. The painting is seen in the apartment of Ruby, Shelley Winters, inAlfie (1966).
[edit]See also
[edit]External links
- "Young Folks" at You Tube
- Website about the life and paintings of "Vladimir Tretchikoff"
