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MAURICE SENDAK (1929-2012) Monsters One and Two. Hand-inked and hand-tinted animation cel for the Sesame Street animated short Little Monsters,1971. 10 x 12 1/2 inches. Unsigned.
This controversial short film only aired twice due to the monsters being deemed too scary. The cel is hand inked and also hand tinted on the front to mirror Sendak's watercolors. The matching shot appears in the beginning of the short, at the 6 second mark.
