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Christie's will auction over 100 objects from Maurice Sendak's personal collection on June 10, 2025, at Rockefeller Center, with an online component from May 29 to June 10. The sale includes works by Dürer, Rembrandt, David Hockney, Pablo Picasso, George Stubbs, and William Blake, as well as rare editions of Blake's *Songs of Experience* (1794) and *Songs of Innocence* (1789), a vintage Mickey and Minnie Mouse tinplate toy, and 30 lots by Sendak himself, including a first-edition cover of *Where the Wild Things Are* (1963). Proceeds will support the Sendak Fellowship residency program at the Sendak Foundation in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Sale of Robert Rauschenberg’s Captiva Compound to Developers Ignites Backlash

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has sold the artist’s 22-acre Captiva Island estate to South Seas, a neighboring resort developer, for $45 million. The sale includes Rauschenberg’s former home, studio, and several cottages where he lived and worked for decades. The Foundation defended the move by citing the prohibitive costs of protecting the site against rising sea levels and hurricane damage, confirming that the prestigious Rauschenberg Residency program will now come to an end.

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Jonathan Carver Moore, founder of an eponymous gallery in San Francisco, is presenting a solo booth of new paintings by Cameroonian-born artist Sesse Elangwe at the FOG Design + Art Fair. The works, developed during a residency with the gallery, depict local Bay Area subjects against recognizable backdrops. Moore, who opened his gallery in 2023 after a career in nonprofit communications and criminal justice reform, emphasizes creating an inclusive, conversational atmosphere for art viewing and collecting.

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Sesse Elangwe's 2025 painting *True Friends?* sold for $22,000 at San Francisco dealer Jonathan Carver Moore's booth during the opening of FOG Art + Design on January 21. The work, created during a residency run by Moore, was purchased by a local collector. Elangwe, a self-taught Cameroonian artist known for emotionally charged portraits of Black subjects, was the fourth participant in Moore's residency program, which aims to connect artists with Bay Area collectors. Another portrait, *And My Better Half* (2025), was pre-sold for $9,000 to another Bay Area collector.