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Jun 29, 2022 · Artist Margaret Keane, known for her paintings of children with large sad eyes - and who had to prove in court she had created them, after her husband originally took credit - has died. Keane's...
- Tim Burton on Art Fraud That Shocked America
Tim Burton's latest film tells the true story of a bizarre...
- Tim Burton on Art Fraud That Shocked America
Margaret Keane, the artist whose doleful, saucer-eyed waifs earned millions in an international kitsch craze a half-century ago, and who inspired an epic art fraud by a husband whose claims to have executed her work were demolished in a “paint-off” in court, died Sunday at her home in Napa, California.
Jun 28, 2022 · Margaret Keane, the artist whose doleful, saucer-eyed waifs earned millions in an international kitsch craze a half-century ago, and who inspired an epic art fraud by a husband whose claims to...
Some time in the mid-1950s, Margaret, married with a child, met Walter Keane. At the height of his popularity, Walter said he saw her sitting alone at a well known North Beach bistro and he was attracted by her large eyes. [13] . At the time Walter was also married and working as a real estate salesman, while painting on the side. [14] .
Jun 30, 2022 · American artist Margaret Keane, whose six-decade painting career was occluded for years by her husband, who claimed to have made the works himself, died on Sunday, June 26, in her Napa Valley home at the age of 94. The cause was heart failure.
Jun 30, 2022 · Margaret Keane, best known for her eerie paintings of subjects with sad, big eyes, has died at 94. According to a report by The New York Times, she passed away on Sunday peacefully at her home in Napa, California, due to heart failure.
Jun 29, 2022 · Keane died of heart failure in her home in Napa Valley, she was 94. Her dramatic rise to fame, which included her husband Walter Keane taking credit for the canvases, a claim that...
