Art
Where the Wild Things Are Worth $950,000
Art by Maurice Sendak, celebrated children's book author, is on sale now at Sotheby's New York.
Just how much did you love Where the Wild Things Are? For many of the book's 20 million-plus readers, the answer is "very." For a few collectors at Sotheby's, the answer might be "just under a million dollars, before tax."
For the next three weeks, $4.5 million worth of art by Maurice Sendak, the much-loved children's book author, who also wrote In the Night Kitchen (1970) and Outside Over There (1981) is on view (and on sale) in Sotheby's New York gallery. (As opposed to the format of a traditional auction, any Sendak lover with $30,000 to spare can walk in and buy a drawing of a monster eating a pile of books without facing competition.) The show runs through Dec. 18.