BIB_ID
318247
Accession number
MA 2592.5
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, related to that illustrating the end of part XV, which closes "Et le petit prince s'en fut, songeant à sa fleur" ([Paris]: Gallimard, c1946 [1967 impression]) p. 57.
This drawing is p. 146 of the autograph manuscript of Le petit prince (MA 2592). See related record for more information.
Title from Lacroix, no. 452.
11 x 8 1/2 inches (279 x 215 mm)
Provenance
Mrs. Silvia Reinhardt; purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Summary
Drawing shows the little prince standing in the desert with some cacti and bones before him; the dunes stretch into the distance and the hot sun beats down on the scene.
Medium
Watercolor and ink on onionskin paper
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