Lot 23
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Maurice Sendak

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Description

  • Maurice Sendak
  • Wild Things in the Grass
  • Paper, Pencil, Ink
Pencil and watercolor on paper
Four panels, each signed Maurice Sendak (lower right)
5 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.; 13 x 20.5 cm
4 x 8 5/8 in.; 10 x 22 cm
4 3/8 x 8 in.; 11 x 20 cm
6 1/2 in.; 16.5 x 22 cm
Executed in 1997 

Catalogue Note

This series of Wild Things emerging from a grassy landscape was used in various print advertisements and posters, as well as on subway displays as four sheets in a sequence for Sendak's Wild Things Are Happening advertising campaign.