I recently watched Performance (1970) by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg- one of my favourite movies. In the scene where Moody and Rosenbloom are in Tony Farell's bedroom we see Chinese Girl by Vladimir Tretchikoff...
Performance.
This is not he only time, of course, that Tretchikoff has featured in movies. Here are two other notable examples:
Frenzy.
As Charles Darwent wrote in The Independent newspaper's obituary of Tretchikoff in September 2006:
A Tretchikoff had only to appear over Bob Rusk's chimneypiece in Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) for the audience to know that Rusk was odd; the Green Lady on the wall of Alfie's Ruby in 1966 marked her out as irredeemably modern.
As a maker of cultural artefacts, if not of art, Tretchikoff was a master.
Alfie.
Based on Tretchikoff's enduring popularity I'm guessing that there must be literally hundreds of other such examples of his work appearing in movies or TV, either as signifiers as shown by Darwent or nowadays as a shorthand for retro kitschism.
