Maurice Sendak
(American, 1928–2012)
Little Bear’s New Friend, 2001
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / New York
Estimate
$7,000 -
10,000
Lot Description
Maurice Sendak
(American, 1928–2012)
Little Bear’s New Friend, 2001
pencil on paper and watercolor and pencil on paper
signed Maurice Sendak (lower left); signed Maurice Sendak (lower right)
Image size: 8 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. (20.6 x 15.9 cm) each
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
Provenance
From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
Exhibited
The Society of Illustrators, New York, "Maurice Sendak, Genius of American Picture Books Exhibition and Sale," April 1-July 10, 2021
Literature
J.G. Schiller, D.M.V. David, L.S. Marcus, Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work, New York, 2013, p. 176, illustrated (finished work)
Note
An original watercolor illustration for a story by Else Minarik, published in Nick Jr. magazine (December/January 2002, p. 61). It was the first Little Bear story to be published since 1968. Together with a full-page preparatory pencil sketch of the same image.
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