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Lesego Chepape

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

Tretchikoff can’t be brushed aside

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

Charles Leonard

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

Questions raised over Tretchikoff’s Lost Orchid

Questions have been raised over whether Vladimir Tretchikoff painted more than one version of his famous Lost Orchid.

Staff Reporter