2. Green Lady By Vladimir Tretchikoff
Vladimir Tretchikoff was in fact labelled ‘the king of kitsch’, he 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. The artist’s works were so popular that – like so many of the artist’s kitschy counterparts – were reproduced in great numbers, and it was rumoured that Tretchikoff was the world’s richest artist after Picasso. Luckily Picasso’s children never sought Tretchikoff’s autograph, or the artist may have ended up as green as his subject.