Chinese Girl

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Chinese Girl 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 Chinese girl 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.