Lot 34
  • 34

Maurice Sendak

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Description

  • Maurice Sendak
  • Catching Butterflies
  • Paper, Ink, Pencil
Pencil and watercolor on paper
Four storyboards, each signed Maurice Sendak (lower right).
7 x 9 1/4 in.; 18 x 23.5 cm
4 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.; 11 x 24.5
3 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.; 9.5 x 24
4 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.; 11 x 32 cm
Executed circa 1997-1998

Catalogue Note

Original artwork featured in Sendak's Wild Things Are Happening advertising campaign. Comprises: a) three-panel storyboard numbered 2, 6, 19; b) two-panel storyboard numbered 7, 17; c) two-panel storyboard numbered 28, 26; d) three-panel storyboard numbered 40, 43, 33.