Chinese Girl Wallpaper - Tretchikoff

Chinese Girl is Tretchikoff’s most well-known and celebrated works. It is one of the highest-selling, and most reproduced prints of the 20th century and its allure has endured. Tretchikoff was able to capture a universal notion of Chinese womanhood. The painting captures the charm of a young Chinese woman, distinctively characterised by an unconventional blue-green skin tone, earning its colloquial title, ‘The Green Lady’. 

Vladimir Tretchikoff is a notable 20th-century artist who painted a variety of realistic figures, portraits, still life, and animals. Inspired by his early life in China, Singapore, Indonesia and later his life in South Africa. Most of his many works were inspired by Malaysian or Chinese subjects that had influenced Tretchikoff. He is considered to be one of the most commercially successful artists of all time and enjoyed widespread popularity by the general public. He exhibited his art in unconventional places like shopping malls, with the goal of making his work more accessible, earning him the title ‘The People’s Painter’.