Painting "Chinese Girl" Return to South Africa

                            

JOHANNESBURG, KOMPAS.com - Painting "Chinese Girl" from the icon Vladimir Tretchikoff, which is one of the most widely reproduction paintings in the world, on Thursday (03/21/2013) back to Johannesburg South Africa.

painting is more than half a century into a private collection in Chicago, USA.

According to auction house Bonhams, as quoted by AP news agency on Thursday, the paintings show Chinese girl with green skin, red lips rubies, and shiny black hair, the most widely reproduced record. Reproduction performed in glass drinks, T-shirts, posters, and wall paper, up to Wednesday (03/20/2013) has sold reached 982,050 pound sterling, or approximately USD 13 billion.

According to Giles Peppiatt, Director of South African Art at Bonhams, prices sale of all reproductive "Chinese Girl" twice as much as forecast. This is the value of a record for the artist Vladimir Tretchikoff or any South African.

And the most encouraging yet, the painting "Girl Chinnes" is returning to South Africa after five decades wandered into the United States.