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Maurice Sendak
Before and after marquettes of Max's bed (Where the Wild Things Are)
1979-1983
Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite pencil on laminated paperboard with metal supports.
3 7/8 x 3 1/4 x 1/8 inches (9.8 x 8.3 .3 cm)
Bequest of Maurice Sendak, 2013.
2013.103:56h
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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. 511)
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