MAURICE SENDAK SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 12 FOOT MURAL (author of Where The Wild Things Are)
1962. MAURICE SENDAK. No Binding.
MAURICE SENDAK, (AMERICAN 1927-2012)
SENDAK SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 12 FOOT MURAL. ONE OF 15 HAND-SIGNED PRINTS OF THE ORIGINAL MURAL HE CREATED FOR THE CHERTOFF FAMILY IN 1962.
In 1962 Maurice Sendak had originally painted a mural for the Chertoff family on the walls of their New York city home. The original mural was painted along a large wall in the Chertoff children’s bedroom. The mural’s playful, whimsical style features characters and motifs that would later appear in Sendak’s famous children’s books, including his own pet dog, Jennie. This limited edition piece was then created later as a set of 15 hand-signed prints and the size reflects the mural’s original proportions. The print is made with archival pigment inks and produced by Stephen Stinehour on cotton rag paper. Sendak hand signed each in ink and numbered 8, from a limited edition of 10 plus 5 artist's proofs. Offered rolled and unframed. Nearly 12 feet in length, the piece is 11'8'' x 3'8'' (112 x 356 cm). Sendak hand SIGNED each in ink with this one numbered 8, from a limited edition of 10 plus 5 artist's proofs.
A stunning massive piece.
Sheet size: 11 feet, 8 inches long x 3 feet, 8 inches” wide.
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ABOUT THE CHERTOFF MURAL:
Sendak painted the work on a bedroom wall of Lionel and Roslyn Chertoff's Upper West Side apartment, two years before he gained international acclaim for "Where the Wild Things Are" in 1963.
It is believed to be the only surviving mural by Sendak, who created the 4-by-13-foot artwork as a gift to Nina and Larry Chertoff, then ages 4 and 6, on the wall of their 13th-floor bedroom.
"Those two kids were in that room when I was working on it, running in and out of the room, bumping around, laughing, screaming," Sendak recalled with a chuckle. "I had fun painting it, it was a great experience."
After the deaths of their parents and the pending rental of the apartment where they grew up, the Chertoff children decided to donate the mural to the Rosenbach Museum & Library. The 1,400-pound plaster-covered masonry wall had to be split into two pieces to get it onto an elevator and out of the apartment building, then was loaded onto a truck to Philadelphia. Several years of evaluation, planning and construction later, it now rests in its permanent home in the Rosenbach's first-floor gallery, where conservation work is under way to stabilize flaking paint and remove layers from housepainters who accidentally covered parts of the characters as they painted around them.
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Price: $3,595.00