Sendak, Maurice

1) The Children's Book Council [of New York] ("Children's Book Showcase..."), 1976, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST ("For Judy - For a long St. Valentine weekend! Maurice Sendak..."), 557 by 432mm, pin holes; 2) Galerie Daniel Keel ("Maurice Sendak Zeichnungen..."), 1974, 687 by 464mm, some tears and loss to top right corner, some folds; 3) Ashmolean Museum Oxford ("Maurice Sendak An Exhibition of Pictures..."), 1976, 443 by 348mm, some folds; 4) Centre Culturel Americain ("Maurice Sendak 64 dessins et aquarelles..."), 1978, 598 by 400mm, some tears; 5) New York Public Library ("New York is Book Country..."), 1979, 608 by 481mm; 6) The Pierpont Morgan Library ("Drawings & Watercolors by Maurice Sendak"), 1981, 585 by 432mm; occasional fraying or creases to extremities (6)

 



 



 

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Steven Heller in Schiller, David and Marcus, Maurice Sendak A Celebration of the Artist and His Work (New York, 2013) notes that in his posters, Sendak "...used the extra space to stretch out with his favored characters and allow them a chance to breathe more than they could on a book page. 'About the presence of Wild Things in so many of my posters,' he wrote, 'they are, for better or worse, the best known of my characters, and therefore their suitability as poster people seems self-evident to me.'"