With her copper green face and unfinished background, The Chinese Girl was never an obvious masterpiece. But cheap copies of this obscure portrait by a Russian artist were once so popular that it became one of the best-selling prints of all time. Now, the original painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff, painted in , is to be sold at auction in London. It is the first time it has come to the market since it was bought by Mignon Buehler, the teenage daughter of a businessman, at an exhibition at Marshall Field's department store in Chicago.
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Like much of his photography, it focuses on teenage schoolgirls as an icons of everyday Japan. And its central concept — the fetishisation of adolescent girls in uniform — will be objectionable to some. As a teenager, he says , he was simultaneously obsessed with and afraid of girls:. When I was growing up, I was obsessed with and fascinated by that. And at the same time, being inexperienced, I held girls in such terror.
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