Pigeon's luck by Tretchikoff, Vladimir
Signed and dated by the author and Artist Vladimir Tretchikoff.
Pigeon's luck by Tretchikoff, Vladimir
Hardcover, ISBN 9780002113359
Publisher: Collins, 1973 first Edition
Used - Very Good +.Very slight edge wear on DJ. Overall beautifully preserved. Protected with a Cellophane cover.
Publisher: Collins, 1973 first Edition
Used - Very Good +.Very slight edge wear on DJ. Overall beautifully preserved. Protected with a Cellophane cover.
Written by Tretchikoff, this book is a wonderful insight into his establishing years as a painter. It reads like an action novel, following his life and times in Singapore when the Japanese invaded, and his subsequent harrowing escape. Separated from his wife and child for many years only adds to the tragedy of his situation. All the while he paints, and the inspiration for some of his most famous works, including the 'Chinese Girl', comes from this period of his life spent in Asia.
Eventually he finds his family and settles in South Africa,at the same time establishing himself as a very successful painter.
This is an action, drama, and romance novel all rolled into one, and what makes it great is that its all true.
If you're a fan of Tretchikoff and of all things kitcsh this is a must for the bedside table. I read in in two days and cannot recommend it enough. What a find!.....And yes, there are pictures.
Eventually he finds his family and settles in South Africa,at the same time establishing himself as a very successful painter.
This is an action, drama, and romance novel all rolled into one, and what makes it great is that its all true.
If you're a fan of Tretchikoff and of all things kitcsh this is a must for the bedside table. I read in in two days and cannot recommend it enough. What a find!.....And yes, there are pictures.
Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff was an artist whose painting Chinese Girl, popularly known as The Green Lady, is one of the best-selling art prints of the twentieth century.
Tretchikoff 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. While his work was immensely popular with the general public, it is often seen by art critics as the epitome of kitsch (indeed, he was nicknamed the "King of Kitsch"). He worked in oil, watercolour, ink, charcoal and pencil but is best known for those works turned into reproduction prints. According to his biographer Boris Gorelik, writing in Incredible Tretchikoff, the reproductions were so popular that it was rumoured that Tretchikoff was the world's richest artist after Picasso.