The stories of the painting and its mass-produced copies couldn't be more different. After Buehler bought it, The Chinese Girl hung in her dining room for 20 years.

Earlier this year Vladimir Tretchikoff's portrait Chinese Girl, often referred to as The Green Lady, was sold for almost £1m ($1.5m) at auction in London - a reflection of its status as one of ...

The Chinese Girl was the best thing that ever happened to me in my not-so-nice life.’ The painting will be auctioned at Bonhams in London in March by the original buyer's granddaughter.

The identity of the model for “Chinese Girl” was a mystery for decades, too. After she was eventually identified three years ago, CNN visited Monika Pon at home in Johannesburg.

News World news Art Chinese Girl: World's most reproduced painting sells for nearly £1 million at auction The work by Siberian-born artist Vladimir Tretchikoff was bought for £982,050 - nearly ...

Billionaire jeweller Laurence Graff has bought the original painting of the Chinese Girl - thought to be the most reproduced print in the world - for nearly £1 million.

In the Confucian ideology that pervaded traditional Chinese society for more than two thousand years, women did not determine the course of their own lives. In most regards, they were subservient to ...