Happy Inauguration

BILL CLINTON 1993 INAUGURAL PRINT signed by MAURICE SENDAK

SENDAK (Maurice):

"HAPPY INAUGURATION ... A Jubilee Welcome for Our New President and His Family! From the Children of America, Maurice Sendak, and Harper Collins Publishers January 20, 1993". SIGNED.

Original art print on semi-stiff paper, the design by Maurice Sendak and commissioned by his publishers as an official greeting to welcome the Clinton era -- it was published in major newspapers all across the USA on the actual inauguration day, and may have been given to those invited to one of many inaugural parties: but exact limitation is unknown, except it is quite rare and unusual.

The actual image appears to be a duotone from graphite, with a red and blue single rule surround with caption below: overall measurement is 13-1/16 x 12-1/2 inches (33.2 x 31.8 cm). A small quantity was acquired directly from the artist, who then signed each one in ink. It is the only political image Sendak did in his entire oeuvre. Our copies are still in the original publisher's cardboard sleeve.