MAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012) – Where the Wild Things Are [New York]: Harper & Row, 1963 First edition, first state, from the author’s library Estimate: $6,000-9,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE $5,670
An unprecedented opportunity to explore the images and ideas that fed the imagination of one of the most beloved picture book artists in history, Maurice Sendak, is coming to Christie’s New York. The Maurice Sendak, Artist, Collector, Connoisseur sale will run as a live auction on June 10 and online from May 29-June 12. His books have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. The sales will present more than 100 works by artists who inspired Sendak and almost 30 original works by Sendak himself.
Sendak’s taste ranged across the past 500 years and from textiles, to toys, to Chinese ceramics. The sale offers some of the great names in art history: Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso, and Hockney with a special emphasis on British artists, including William Blake, but also George Stubbs, Henry Fuseli, and Samuel Palmer. There are works by children’s authors including Beatrix Potter and Eric Carle, as well as objects featuring Sendak’s lifelong inspiration, Mickey Mouse.
UPDATE: THE SALE TOTAL WAS $4.8 MILLION
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) Songs of Innocence Printed by the author, 1789. Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000. UPSDATE: THIS MADE $1,260,000
