Walter Stanley Keane

American plagiarist (1915–2000)

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Lived 1915–2000, aged 85United States
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    1915–2000
    Aged 85
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Updated 2026-08-26

Walter Stanley Keane was an American plagiarist who became famous in the 1960s as the claimed painter of a series of widely reproduced paintings depicting vulnerable subjects with enormous eyes. The paintings are now accepted as having been painted by his then-wife, Margaret Keane.

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