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Lot 35
Sale 5180 - Books and Manuscripts
Jul 25, 2023
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[Children's & Illustrated] Sendak, Maurice The Junior Museum The Art Institute of Chicago
No place, 1984. Original color poster for The Art Institute of Chicago, inscribed and dated by Maurice Sendak: "For Joel and Elizabeth from Maurice Sendak". 22 x 19 in. (559 x 483 mm). In frame, 22 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (571 x 496 mm). Hanrahan C12B
The Junior Museum in Chicago, which commissioned this poster, was originally founded in 1964 by the Women's Board of the Art Institute of Chicago, with the aim of being devoted to exhibitions for schoolchildren. The poster features two of Sendak's monsters from his most enduring work, Where the Wild Things Are.