Incredible Tretchikoff: life of an artist and adventurer

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For two decades he was one of the most famous painters in the world. Millions of people in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa flocked to see and buy his exotic pictures. Celebrities queued up to be painted by him and to buy his works. Paintings such as Chinese Girl? the?Green Lady'? quickly became iconic images, reproduced countless times and appearing everywhere from suburban living rooms to blockbuster films. Vladimir Tretchikoff was the first pop-star artist. He lived a life as colourful as his instantly recognizable paintings. Born to a deep.;Cover; Title Page; Contents; Who is Mr Tretchikoff?; A boy from Siberia; In China's Russian town; Alone in the eastern Babylon; The Russian community's big hope; High living and low thinking in Singapore; Divers in New York, Snow White in Malaya; Boosting morale at the Island Fortress; Journey into the unknown; Five hundred miles in a lifeboat; Getting by in Java; A painter, at last!; An Indonesian artist?; Interview with a ghost; Good hope at the Cape; Tretchikoff goes West; Those famous Chinese ladies; When the flowers cry; Stardom; Britain and beyond; Tretchi and Tretchikoff.