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Margaret Keane

Margaret Keane Dies

Margaret Keane Kitsch Painter Of Big Eyed Children Dies Aged 94

The painter Margaret Keane, creator of melancholy portraits of big-eyed children, popular in the late 1950s-1960s, has died aged 94.

30 June 2022

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Walter Keane

Walter Keane – Epic Art Fraud And The Big Eyes Of Hollywood

Walter Keane was an American artist who became famous in the 1950s and 1960s for painting a series of widely-reproduced images depicting vulnerable children with enormous eyes.

27 October 2014

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