Blue Lady - by Bai - for CheekyTiki
aka. Tretchikoff's Blue Lady
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Blue Lady - by Bai - for CheekyTiki
aka Tretchikoff's Blue Lady in 9 collections
The Blue Lady is based on a 1950 painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff. It became one of the world's most popular paintings when made into a print in the 1960s and 1970s. The painting was of an unknown Chinese girl and was best known for the unusual skin tone used for her face (a blue-green color). Recently, the model for Tretchikoff's painting was found to be a then 17-year-old Monika Sing-Lee (now Monika Pon), who was then a single girl working in her uncle's laundry in Cape Town.