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Mama model (Where the Wild Things Are)

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Maurice Sendak

Mama model (Where the Wild Things Are)

1979-1983
1 3/4 x 2 3/8 inches
Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite pencil on paper on board.
2013.103:56d

Bequest of Maurice Sendak, 2013.

Notes
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.
Classification
Century Drawings