Le petit prince déterrant des pousses de baobab Drawing

Record ID: 
318290
Accession number: 
MA 2592.20
Author: 
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
Created: 
New York, 1942
Credit: 
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.

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
Dimensions: 
11 x 8 7/16 inches (279 x 215 mm)
Provenance: 
Mrs. Silvia Reinhardt; purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Classification: