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The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
A painting by iconic artist Margaret Keane that was stolen from a Honolulu dental clinic nearly 50 years ago was turned over today to a representative of the original owners, one of whom is a woman depicted in the painting when she was a child.
Officials of Heritage Auctions, the largest fine art and collectibles auction house founded in the U.S., turned over the artwork, Eyes Upon You, to family representative Robert Wittman during a news conference held at the auction house s headquarters in Dallas.
The painting was stolen from the dental clinic in November 1972.
The oil painting sold for $35, 000 at a December 2020 auction. According to Heritage, the work was consigned to the auction house by a family who purchased it from a New Jersey gallery in the 1980s.
Bay Area artist Margaret Keane relieved and happy as painting stolen in 1972 is recovered
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Heritage Auctions returns missing Margaret Keane painting stolen in 1972
The artwork, by the subject of Tim Burtons film Big Eyes, was taken from the waiting room of a Honolulu dentists office.
DALLAS, TX
.- On Nov. 14, 1972, a painting by iconic artist Margaret Keane was stolen from a dentists 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.
During a media conference at the Dallas-based auction houses global headquarters, Heritage officials turned over the painting to the familys representative, Robert Wittman, a former FBI special agent and founder of the agencys Art Crime Team. The work sold at auction in December 2020, shortly after which Wittman, a renowned art-recovery and security specialist, informed Heritage Auctions it had been stolen from Hawaii in 1972.