Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak's Wild Things Opera Notebook (Where the Wild Things Are).
1979
Bequest of Maurice Sendak, 2013.
2013.103.74
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Pocket memo composition notebook with 12 pages of handwritten notes regarding "Where the Wild Things Are" opera.
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. 6303)
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