Vladimir Tretchikoff biography in Biographies from the artzine on artrepublic.com

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 and Malays. His work was very commercially successful, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. It was popular with the general public, but is often seen by art critics as the epitome of kitsch. 

After the Second World War he settled in South Africa. Sadly he suffered a stroke in 2002 that left him unable to paint, and died on 26 August 2006 in Cape Town.