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Margaret Keane

The Year in Art 2015

With the year coming to an end, here are the 5 top art news stories that stuck with me in 2015. 1. Record-Breaking Year for Ridiculous Amount of Money Spent on Art Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani's series of 'reclining nudes' first…

Big Eyes

The story of how Margaret Keane became one of the most successful artists in America that nobody had ever heard of is both fascinating and terribly sad. For over 20 years Margaret was a virtual slave to her husband Walter who took the…