BIB_ID
318208
Accession number
MA 2592.2
Creator
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
Display Date
New York, 1942
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Description
1 drawing
Notes
A preparatory watercolor drawing by Saint-Exupéry for Le petit prince.
This drawing is p. 143 of the autograph manuscript of Le petit prince (MA 2592). See related record for more information.
Title from Lacroix, no. 438.
11 x 8 7/16 inches (279 x 214 mm)
Provenance
Mrs. Silvia Reinhardt; purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Summary
Drawing shows the pilot reclining against some rocks with his arms and legs crossed and head bowed; the tail and one wing of his crashed airplane emerge from the dunes in the distance.
Medium
Watercolor and ink on onionskin paper
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