

Plaster mold, with pencil and watercolor designs; with a small metal pail and “Max” plush doll. The body decorated with “Wild Things” interspersed with foliage, and banded purple and yellow legs. Under the udeer is Max, dressed in his wolf suit, seated in side a metal pail, the whole raised on an irregular oblong base, where signed “Maurice Sendak, ‘2000” at bottom right. Drawn and painted by the artist, with help from Lynn Caponera.