Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak
Diorama of Max's sea journey (Where the Wild Things Are)
1979-1983
Watercolor and pen and ink on board.
10 3/4 x 18 x 8 inches (27.3 x 45.7 x 20.3 cm)
Bequest of Maurice Sendak, 2013.
2013.103:58e
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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. 490)
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