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about this piece
Accompanied by a four page booklet, size approximately 8 x 8 and also a 16 x 12 certificate signed by the Master Printer.
Undoubtedly Tretchikoff's most iconic work, Chinese Girl remains the most widely reproduced and recognizable of his oeuvre. The highest-selling art print in history, in the 1950s and '60s, Chinese Girl captured imaginations and pride of place above mantelpieces across the globe.
The painting is of a Chinese girl and is best known for the unusual skin tone used for her face. The green-blue patina-like effect of the sitter's face is uncanny, heightening the red of her lips and framed by her lustrous dark hair. The deftly-handled golden hues and decorative detail of her tunic emerge from the lines of charcoal on brown canvas. Notably, the comination of lustrous golden silk and the blue sheen of the model's skin combine to produce an otherworldly glow- a luminescence that is the leitmotif of Trechikoff's best works.
The work is inspired by the sitter, Monika Sing-Lee. She was 17 at the time and was spotted by Tretchikoff while she was working in her uncle's launderett in Sea Point, Cape Town. 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.
The original sold for almost $1.5 million at Bonhams auction house in London on March 20, 2013. The painting was purchased by British jeweler Laurence Graff and was exhibited shortly after the sale in Stellenbosch, a town 31 miles east of Cape Town, South Africa.
This rare gouttelette was published as an exclusive edition of only 60 copies for the worldwide market. It was produced with lightfast inks to BS1006 sandard onto fine archival-quality cotton canvas, coated with acid-free priming for permanent artwork reproduction; sourced from an environmentally conscious supplier. This gouttelette was individually checked for quality by the master printer before the cerificate was numbered and then signed by him in approval of the edition.
Undoubtedly Tretchikoff's most iconic work, Chinese Girl remains the most widely reproduced and recognizable of his oeuvre. The highest-selling art print in history, in the 1950s and '60s, Chinese Girl captured imaginations and pride of place above mantelpieces across the globe.
The painting is of a Chinese girl and is best known for the unusual skin tone used for her face. The green-blue patina-like effect of the sitter's face is uncanny, heightening the red of her lips and framed by her lustrous dark hair. The deftly-handled golden hues and decorative detail of her tunic emerge from the lines of charcoal on brown canvas. Notably, the comination of lustrous golden silk and the blue sheen of the model's skin combine to produce an otherworldly glow- a luminescence that is the leitmotif of Trechikoff's best works.
The work is inspired by the sitter, Monika Sing-Lee. She was 17 at the time and was spotted by Tretchikoff while she was working in her uncle's launderett in Sea Point, Cape Town. 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.
The original sold for almost $1.5 million at Bonhams auction house in London on March 20, 2013. The painting was purchased by British jeweler Laurence Graff and was exhibited shortly after the sale in Stellenbosch, a town 31 miles east of Cape Town, South Africa.
This rare gouttelette was published as an exclusive edition of only 60 copies for the worldwide market. It was produced with lightfast inks to BS1006 sandard onto fine archival-quality cotton canvas, coated with acid-free priming for permanent artwork reproduction; sourced from an environmentally conscious supplier. This gouttelette was individually checked for quality by the master printer before the cerificate was numbered and then signed by him in approval of the edition.
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