'Young Man in a Beach Sarong (Fire Island).' Pen and ink on paper. 11 x 8". Signed in pen lower right. An illustration prepared for a fashion spread in the Fire Island Times, 1965.

Sendak took a house on Fire Island with his lover Eugene Glynn in the early 1960s, and it's there, in 1963, that he wrote “Where the Wild Things Are."

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