Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak
Study for thug costume (Where the Wild Things Are)
1996
Xerox on paper and overleaf with graphite pencil on tracing paper.
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Bequest of Maurice Sendak, 2013.
2013.103:11
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One of a group of final drawings, sketches, and studies (models of stage sets and costumes), and various other materials for Oliver Knussen's opera, Where the Wild Things Are, 1979-1983, to a libretto by Maurice Sendak, based on Sendak's own children's book of the same title.

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Estate of the artist (Estate no. 6272)
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