Biography
At the beginning of the 2020, experts on criminal cases in the art of Rosto Rumpoonen and Yurki Seppyal released the book "Scammers in the world of art." The authors told readers about ingenious scams, described in detail about the method of determining fakes and on investigations not known to the general public. In the reference manual contained stories about Tapani Lowowee - the artist, did not know how to draw, the German falsifier Wolfgang's disputation and the married couple Margaret and Walter Kin.Childhood and youth
The celebrity was born in the middle of the first autumn month, September 15, 1927, in Nashville and received the name of Peggy Doris Hawkins at birth. After 2 years, the baby overtook the misfortune. During the surgical intervention in the mastoid process, doctors damaged the patient a drumpatch. Since then, she has fallen the opportunity to hear well and studied the interlocutor, carefully looking at him.
Tract for painting originated in the girl at an early age. And already at 10 years old, the future artist of art attended the occupation at The Watkins Institute and wrote her first picture. The canvas, on which two little heroines were blocked - crying and laughing, granddaughter presented a grandmother, which, like the Bible, a huge impact on her work. But after a couple of years, the author lost this work, losing it to poker.
In addition, the young artist knew both the local church due to the sketches of angels with big eyes and soft wings. Having reached the age of majority, a girl at the age of 12 visited Traphagen School of Design in New York.
In the 50s Margaret drawd clothes and cribs for babies, and then smoothly moved to the creation of portraits. At first she experimented with kitsche techniques, using both acrylic and oil paints, and portrayed women, children, cats, dogs and horses.
Personal life
The personal life of the American woman did not immediately. For the first time, Margaret was still in his youth under the crown of Frank Richard Ulbrich, who became the father of her daughter Jane. Now the artist lives together with the only heir and the son-in-law by Don Suiugert in California.In 1955, blue-eyed blonde accepted the proposal of the hands and hearts of Walter Kina, the wedding took place in the city of Honolulu. The opinions of journalists on where it was the acquaintance of future spouses, diverged.
Some argued that the man, allegedly stayed in a married position, saw Margaret, sitting alone in the famous Bistro North Beach. And immediately drowned in her big eyes. And the charming satellite conquered the visitor to courtesy and sociability.
Embed from getty imagesOthers put forward the assumption that the meeting happened at the exhibition in San Francisco. Walt, according to his wife, simply radiated charm. Third believed that they, by that time, survived parting with previous second halves, in 1953 faced a street fair. Be that as it may, it was Keene who played a noticeable, almost a delicate role in the quarry of the chosen.
The couple was together until November 1, 1964. A year later, a woman filed for a divorce and moved from San Francisco to Hawaii for a quarter of a century. The fate brought her with the sports writer Dan McGuire, who helped forget the whole horror of the difficult relationship and morally strengthen. Lovers were combined with a legitimate marriage in the 1970s.
At the same time, Kin joined the "Jehovah's Witnesses", which, as she did not emphasize, changed her existence for the better.
Paintings
Immediately after the solemn marriage, Walter took the active implementation of portraits of his wife, where the main characters were invariably depicted with characteristic big eyes. Everything would be nothing, but the authorship of the caustic manipulator attributed to himself. The main place of artwork sales was then considered the Hungry I Comedy Club in San Francisco.
Margaret later told that, having learned about the satellites, he said nothing to anyone, because he was afraid of threats from the satellite.
In 1957, he did so that one of the paintings by which his spouse worked in complete isolation, behind the dark curtains for 16 hours a day, was concerned on the wall of the Bank of America in Sausalito. Then she took 9 canvases to New Orleans and exposed to Washington Square Park in New York, the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago and the Little Gallery of East Side.
Employees of Scherist had no limit. In order to please and those who could not acquire originals because of mad prices, a businessman distributed reproductions in the form of greeting cards, calendars, posters, albums and even kitchen aprons. As a result, in the 60s Kin became one of the most popular and commercially successful artists of that time.
In 1970, a woman, speaking on the radio, first stated that it was actually it was the creator of all the works attributed to its unradiginal ex-chosen one. Immediately after that, the San Francisco Examiner reporter Bill Flange organized them a "full-time bet" in Union-Square, but the man did not appear on it.
Embed from getty imagesIn 1986, Way Newton in the world of art, as she was called, was called to Walter. To get to the truth, the femis servants ordered the chief participants of the proceedings to write a portrait with wide open eyes. Margaret coped with the task of less than an hour, and her opponent refused, referring to the sore shoulder. As a result, justice tried.
Noteworthy fact: When an American was in a relationship with a second husband, her work (for example, "tomorrow forever") as if sorrow filled. And after parting, they were brighter and happy.
Margaret Kin now
Despite the old age and state of health, Margaret remains true to its work - the official website, "Instagram" and "Facebook" continue to be replenished with photographic images of new "big-eyed" works. So, at the end of 2019, the artist delivered fans the picture of The Ambitious Guest I, and at the beginning of the 2020th - a limited edition came out "Girl with balloons".Paintings
- 1959 - "Ballerina"
- 1960 - "Self-portrait"
- 1962 - Dragon on Parade
- 1963 - "Tomorrow forever"
- 1965 - Girl of the Islands
- 1977 - Japanese Princess
- 1977 - Wonder
- 1981 - The Hostage
- 1996 - Black Boy
- 2000 - HIGH FASHION
- 2012 - Will You Accept Me?
- 2013 - A Little Bird Told Me
- 2015 - A Closer Look
- 2019 - The Ambitious Guest I
- 2020 - "Girl with balloons"