He also designed sets and costumes for theater, ballet, and opera, notably a production of The Magic Flute by Mozart, whose music Sendak said he loved above all else. by creating characters who are alternately willful and wracked by anxiety, just like real children.īesides his own, Sendak also illustrated more than one hundred books by other writers, among them Shakespeare, Melville, and Tolstoy, in a protean range of styles- including lush, quasi-surrealist scenes, impressionistic landscapes, and delicately crosshatched interiors. He is credited with bringing the genre to maturity-taking children’s literature out of the sweet, safe worlds of Beatrix Potter et al. Who among us, sent to bed without supper as a child for misbehaving, did not dream of being Max, king of the Wild Things, for a night? In the dozen children’s books he wrote and illustrated-chief among them his best-known and most enduring, Where the Wild Things Are -Maurice Sendak displayed uncommonly deep insight into the youthful psyche. Maurice Sendak Foundation, Ridgefield, Connecticut, ©The Maurice Sendak Foundation photograph ©The Maurice Sendak Foundation, courtesy of the Columbus Museum of Art. The result is this fabulous collector's edition panoramic print presenting Sendak's entire painting, as opposed to having to see it printed with the gutter of the book in the centre of the image.Ĭopyright 1963 printed on reverse.Design for a poster to advertise Glyndebourne’s (Lewes, England) operatic productions of Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop! by Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), 1985. This gorgeous print was published in 1971 as an edition specially re-photographed from the original artwork held at the Sendak Archives at the Rosenbach Museum & Library. The book has been adapted into an animated short, an Opera, and a motion picture, and the picture book itself is still in print over 50 years after it's initial publication.
Written and illustrated in 1963 by Maurice Sendak, 'Where The Wild Things Are' is one of the most popular picture books ever published.
Medium: Lithograph print on Acid-free PaperĪ beautiful large full colour print of this classic image.
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