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MAURICE SENDAK.
Queen of the Night.
Image from the opera Magic Flute at Houston Grand Opera. Etching, drypoint, aquatint,
mezzotint with roulette additions printed from one copper plate. 381x310mm; 15x12
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/
4
inches, sheet, on white wove, mouldmade, Lana paper. Signed and dated by Sendak in
2002, and numbered 10/10 in pencil, lower margin. [Mt. Kisco:Tyler Press, circa 1979]
[5,000/6,000]
In the1970s Sendak began collaborating with printmaker KennethTyler while working on sets
and costumes for Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.The operas
inspired him to create a wealth of sketches, drawings, and watercolors. Some of them appeared
in his beloved book Nutcracker and others were printed at Tyler Graphics between 1977 and
1984, and again in 2002, employing lithography and intaglio processes. “Sendak’s love of
drawing and his joy in the collaborative process resulted in numerous states for each image . . .
But circumstances prevented any of these editions from being published. Sendak went on to
hand-watercolor some of the black-and-white intaglios, including Wild Thing and Ida”—see
Marabeth Cohen-Tyler:
for more information on
this collaboration.They have never before appeared at auction: the prints were apportioned to
the artist, to the National Gallery of Australia’s Kenneth Tyler Print Collection, and to
KennethTyler himself for his personal collection.This print was acquired directly from Sendak.
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HELEN SEWELL.
Two illustrations from “Little House in the BigWoods.”
Pen and ink on paper. Page 39: full page illustration showing Pa Ingalls as a boy in the big
woods. Image size 209x159 mm; 8
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4
x 6
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inches. * Page 150: text vignette illustration
showing Cousin Charlie jumping up and down on a nest of yellow-jackets. 101x76mm;
4x3 inches on larger sheet. Both with stamp on verso reading “Please return to/Harper
& Brothers/Juvenile Department.”
[2,500/3,500]
Helen Sewell was the first to illustrate Laura Ingall’s Wilder’s Little House series before
GarthWilliams.
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