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Gone: When it came under the hammer in 2013, Vladimir Tretchikoff’s portrait Chinese Girl sold for £1 million.
BALINESE GIRL

Tretchikoff can’t be brushed aside

Tretchi also knew how to find innovative gaps to make money out of his art

  • Charles Leonard
3 min read
Museum grade: Vladimir Tretchikoff’s 1949 painting Herb Seller was his first painting to be exhibited in the South African National Gallery, in 2010.
AFTER THE PARTY

Tretchi, the original meme artist, enjoys lift off at auction

Passion, profit, prestige … the popularity of ‘the people’s artist’ endures, despite his work being rejected as kitsch

  • Sean O Toole
8 min read