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MAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012)
A Christmas Mystery, mountain study
signed "Maurice Sendak" (lower right margin)
ink on paper
638 × 418 in. (16 x 10.4 cm.)
Executed c.1971.
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Sendak created A Christmas Mystery as a special picture story for Family Circle Magazine's December 1971 issue. The Santa Clause mountain image was also the subject of a puzzle based on A Christmas Mystery, and remains one of a select few Christmas-themed illustrations by Sendak alongside his work on Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.

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