MAURICE SENDAK. Three figures in various dress. for a Fire Island Times article on local fashion by Margot Goodman, 1965. Pen and ink on paper. 275x204 mm; 10 3/4x8 inches. Signed "M. Sendak" in lower left. Provenance: the artist; Fire Island News office; Nat Hentoff and Margaret Goodman; private collection, New York City.
Sendak and his partner, Eugene Glynn, had a house on Fire Island for several years. It was there that he wrote Where the Wild Things Are in 1963. Among their close friends were Nat Hentoff, the Village Voice and New Yorker writer, and his wife, the journalist Margot Goodman. Sendak wrote and illustrated the article at Hentoff's request and gifted these drawings to them.
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