Margaret D. H. Keane é uma artista norte-americana, que pinta principalmente mulheres, crianças e animais com olhos grandes em óleo ou noutros media.
O seu ex-marido, Walter Keane, vendia as suas pinturas assinadas pelo nome dele; ela tinha conhecimento e permitia porque assim conseguia vender todas as peças. No entanto, subsequentemente, Margaret Keane processou Walter num processo de difamação em 1968. O juiz exigiu que os litigantes pintassem um quadro na sala de audiências, mas Walter recusou, citando uma dor no ombro. De seguida, Margaret produziu um quadro em 53 minutos. O júri atribuiu uma indenização a Margaret de $4 milhões.
“The older I get, the brighter colours I live. But in the past, they were dark, dingy, sad colours.”
KQED Arts, " Margaret Keane, Painter Behind Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMKnuhNe3Pc," YouTube.com.
2014
1999, Cited by Amy M. Spindler
Contexto: Gradually it dawned on me that I was painting my own inner emotions. Those children were asking: "Why are we here? What is life all about? Why is there sadness and injustice?" All those deep questions. Those children were sad because they didn't have the answers. They were searching.
“Walter was extremely charming. He could charm anybody, especially women.”
2014, Cited by Jesse Hamlin
“It was the eyes that did it. [timid giggle] I liked the way he painted eyes and he liked mine.”
Stated at a time when Margaret Keane was still going along with the fraud that her husband was the painter of the Big Eyed waifs.
Cited by Jane Howard, " The Man Who Paints Those Big Eyes: The Phenomenal Success of Walter Keane https://books.google.com/books?id=WFMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39," LIFE 59, no. 9 (27 August 1965), p. 45.
1965, Cited by Jane Howard
“He can't paint eyes. He couldn't learn to paint at all.”
Cited in " The lady behind those Keane-eyed kids https://books.google.com/books?id=2FMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56," LIFE 69, no. 21 (20 November 1970), p. 56.
1970
Interviewed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMK6aBSX2QY on The Mike Douglas Show (1972).
1972
This statement was made before the public learned that Margaret, and not Walter, was the painter of the Big Eyed waifs.
Interviewed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WgStC6fvtM by Gary E. Park (circa 1964).
Walter Keane
