Pigeon?s Luck Artists Life Story That Reads Like a Thriller

TRETCHIKOFF, Vladimir; HOCKING, Anthony;

Edité par Collins, London 1973 1st edition.

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Hardback. Size 6 x 9 inches. In grey cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Some minor rubbing on edges. Mild tanning. In protective cellophane wrapper. Price clipped). Some marks to boards. A clean and tight copy. 283pp. With b/w and colour photographs. Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff 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. According to his biographer Boris Gorelik, writing in Incredible Tretchikoff, the reproductions were so popular that it was rumoured that Tretchikoff was the world's richest artist after Picasso.

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• Titre: Pigeon?s Luck Artists Life Story That Reads Like a Thriller
• Éditeur: Collins, London 1973 1st edition.
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