![]() “I’m so glad I finally got the courage to speak up,” says the silver-haired Keane, a slim, soft-spoken Tennessean who became a Jehovah’s Witness in the late ’60s after moving to Hawaii to start anew. She added the “MDH” to the big-eye pictures after coming clean about their origins. She signs them “MDH Keane” (her maiden name is Margaret Doris Hawkins). Limited-edition prints go for $850 to $5,000 and posters from $35 to $250. ![]() ![]() The walls are filled with her pictures of teary-eyed tykes, tigers on gold leaf, Noah’s ark, and the sensual women (inspired by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani) that Keane showed under her own name while secretly painting the doe-eyed moppets for which her debonair husband took credit until she came out of the shadows in 1970.įor the past 20 years, Keane has sold her work at the Keane Eyes Gallery on Larkin Street across from Ghirardelli Square, where the paintings start at $12,000 - some have gone for upward of $185,000. Still prolific at 87, Keane - played by Amy Adams in the Tim Burton film “Big Eyes,” which opens Christmas Day - is sitting in the living room of the Napa-area home she shares with her daughter, Jane, and Jane’s husband, Don Swigert. “I never saw a cent of it,” Margaret Keane says with a laugh. Margaret whipped up a classic bug-eyed “Keane” in 54 minutes Walter refused, citing a sore shoulder. She convinced a Honolulu jury of that in 1986, when the federal judge hearing her suit against her ex-husband ordered them both to produce a painting in the courtroom.
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