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Saturday, November 18, 2023

Maurice Sendak: Wild Rumpus Stage Design, Glyndebourne

A Maurice Sendak set design offered yesterday at Heritage is based on his classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are. "Let the wild rumpus start!," as it is called, was created for the Glyndebourne Touring Opera's production. These are the Sendak characters collectors wants to see and own in his original work, although here they are looser and less detailed than they appear in his book illustrations.

Maurice Sendak
Heritage Auctions listing accessed November 5, 2023, eleven days before the auction

https://fineart.ha.com/itm/mainstream-illustration/maurice-sendak-american-1928-2012-let-the-wild-rumpus-start-where-the-wild-things-are-glyndebourne-touring-opera/a/8145-67035.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

Bidding opened at $35,000, half the low estimate of $70,000. The piece was not sold at auction, but was made available for purchase at a fixed price of $87,500 after the sale. This cost is derived from the low estimate of $70,000 plus the 25% buyer's premium. Thus the reserve must have been set at the low estimate, the highest reserve permissible.

Note: Readers waiting for my express permission to submit scans and photographs of original Maurice Sendak art to this blog may now consider themselves enabled to do so.

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Saturday, February 13, 2021

Maurice Sendak: Costume Design Rough for "The Love of Three Oranges"

Maurice Sendak created costume and stage designs for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Sergei Prokofiev's "The Love of Three Oranges." There was both a television production and a stage production, not to mention a book. The Booksniffer of Lewes, East Sussex, offers a rough of one of the illustrator's costume designs. How did the bookseller get his hands on this? "Maurice presented it to me when I asked him to sign some of my first editions." Who knew how simple it is? The price today is 2,200 British pounds.

Maurice Sendak
AbeBooks listing accessed February 12, 2021

https://www.abebooks.com/Love-Three-Oranges-Maurice-Sendak-ORIGINAL/30838518670/bd?cm_ven=nl&cm_cat=trg&cm_pla=want_CM&cm_ite=viewbook

There were dueling translations from Glyndebourne. The production was called "The Love of Three Oranges." When the book was published, the more traditional for was used.

https://www.hakes.com/Auction/ItemDetail/93100/SENDAK-MASTERPIECE-ART-FOR-1982-TV-PRODUCTION-OF-PROKOFIEVS-OPERA-THE-LOVE-FOR-THREE-ORANGES

Note: I would love to post other original Maurice Sendak art, including any from Glyndebourne and any spontaneously gifted to those asking him to sign first editions. No story is too implausible. After all, how many Americans can resist a British accent?

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Saturday, November 23, 2019

William's Copy of The Love for Three Oranges by Frank Corsaro and Maurice Sendak

In 2012 a rare copy of The Love for Three Oranges: The Glyndebourne Version by Frank Corsaro with stage and costume designs by Maurice Sendak was offered for sale on eBay. It was personalized to one William by Mr. Sendak, who drew a lively dancing pig.