Supreme Margaret Keane Teardrop TeeBlack

Product Description

The Supreme Margaret Keane Teardrop Tee in Black is a Spring 2024 collaboration between Supreme and the estate or work of Margaret Keane — the American painter born in 1927 whose most recognizable work features subjects rendered with dramatically oversized eyes that became one of the most controversial and most culturally significant stories in 1960s American art through the dispute with her then-husband Walter Keane, who falsely claimed credit for her paintings until a 1986 court case vindicated her authorship, a story dramatized in Tim Burton's 2014 film Big Eyes. Margaret Keane's waif figures with their impossibly large, melancholy eyes — producing the teardrop emotional resonance that this tee's name directly references — became both highly commercially successful 1960s kitsch and a retroactively appreciated example of emotionally sophisticated folk art whose influence can be traced through Japanese kawaii aesthetic, lowbrow art movements, and the broader visual culture of big-eyed figure design. Supreme's collaboration with Margaret Keane's work connects the brand's history of artistic collaboration — with artists ranging from Takashi Murakami to Mike Kelley — to one of the most culturally loaded and most narratively complex bodies of American popular art, with the Teardrop graphic delivering Keane's signature emotional register in a Supreme tee context that is simultaneously art historical, pop cultural, and fashion forward. Released April 11, 2024 at $48 retail through Supreme's global flagship stores and online store via the standard Thursday drop format.

The Supreme Margaret Keane Teardrop Tee Black was released on April 11, 2024 with a retail price of $48.