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Maurice Sendak

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Description

  • Maurice Sendak
  • Pencil study for Crossing a Precipice
  • Paper, Pencil
Pencil on tracing paper
Two storyboards, signed Maurice Sendak and  M. Sendak respectively (lower right)
5 x 12 in.; 12.5 x 30.5 cm
7 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.; 20 x 29.5 cm 
Executed in 1997

Catalogue Note

Concept drawing for Sendak's Wild Things Are Happening advertising campaign. Comprising: a) three-panel storyboard numbered 16, 28, 24; b) six-panel storyboard annotated 30, 31, 34, "Monster swings snake", "Boy takes snake", and "Waving goodbye".