DAILY ART FIX: Heritage Auctions returns missing Margaret Keane painting stolen in 1972

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Margaret Keane is notorious as the low brow “big eyes” painter. If you’ve ever seen an image of a cute/sad child with oversized eyes, it’s most likely either Keane or a knockoff. When I first heard about the source of these paintings years ago, her husband Walter Keane was still stealing the credit for the works, but that’s another story.

The value of Keane’s paintings have soared over time, even if it was driven by a sense of irony. Recently, an art theft of an original Keane work got resolved.

On Nov. 14, 1972, a painting by iconic artist Margaret Keane was stolen from a dentist’s office waiting room in Honolulu, and remained missing for nearly 50 years. On Wednesday, Heritage Auctions reunited the lost artwork with its original owners – among them, the woman depicted in the painting as a 7-year-old girl.

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