BIB_ID
318290
Accession number
MA 2592.20
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 an illustration for part V, which shows the little prince digging up a baobab shoot in a field of pink flowers ([Paris]: Gallimard, c1946 [1967 impression]) p. 23.
This drawing is p. 159 of the autograph manuscript of Le petit prince (MA 2592). See related record for more information.
Title from Lacroix, no. 441.
11 x 8 7/16 inches (279 x 215 mm)
Provenance
Mrs. Silvia Reinhardt; purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Summary
Drawing shows a the little prince using a shovel to dig up a small baobab sapling on a planet that is surrounded by one star and a yellow moon.
Medium
Watercolor and ink and traces of graphite on onionskin paper
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