BIB_ID
318257
Accession number
MA 2592.10
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 the illustration for part XIII, which shows the businessman seated at a desk ([Paris]: Gallimard, c1946 [1967 impression]) p. 46.
This drawing is p. 151of the autograph manuscript of Le petit prince (MA 2592). See related record for more information.
Title from Lacroix, no. 480.
11 x 8 3/8 inches (279 x 214 mm)
Provenance
Mrs. Silvia Reinhardt; purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Summary
Drawing shows a businessman in a pink suit and glasses seated at a low table with an open book; five pink flowers grow on the planet, which is surrounded by four stars and a sun.
Medium
Watercolor and ink on onionskin paper
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