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Vladimir Tretchikoff, original name Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikov, born December 26, Russia and died August 26, 2006, Cape Town, South Africa, Russian-born South African artist, a popular self-taught painter who was known as “the king of kitsch”
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, Singapore and Indonesia, and later life in South Africa.