Green lady painting

The Daily Mail this week tracked down Monika Pon, the Green Lady whose face has adorned millions of British sitting-room walls, at her home in South Africa.

Oil on canvas. Tamara de Lempicka (aka Maria Gorska) was a Polish painter known for the “soft cubism” by which she epitomized the sensual side of the Art Deco movement (her renderings of stylishly sexy, bedroom-eyed women remain unmatched to this day). Tamara attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland before moving to St. Petersburg, Russia (where she experienced the Bolshevik Revolution)— then on to her own bohemian twenties in Paris during the Roaring 20s, where she quickly became…

While I was at my child-hood home, my parents had a large framed print of the 1950 “Green Lady” in our lounge room. The “Green Lady” is a beautiful young Chinese woman painted by Vladimir Tretchiko…

“I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don’t apply to those who live on the fringe.” In Tamara de Lempicka’s world women are fierce, independent and effortlessly stylish. Today her highly collectable paintings are potent symbols of a bygone era, capturing the sensuous glamour and decadence of the...

Original art by Dustin Bailard

Thomas Edwin Mostyn [British painter, 1864-1930] Oil on canvas Bolton Museum, UK

A collection of paintings of various ladies.

I made these pics because I like art. It took me two hours to complete.

She is not cute, she is striking. Her intensity and seriousness, combined with the playfulness of her gestures are mesmerizing to me. Every time I think of this card I feel grateful to have found h…

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