BIB_ID
318321
Accession number
MA 2592.28
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 sketch 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. See also MA 2592.10.
This drawing is p. 163 of the autograph manuscript of Le petit prince (MA 2592). See related record for more information.
Title from Lacroix, no. 487.
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 businessman on his planet, seated on a stool, wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar; the planet is situated between a star and a moon or sun.
Medium
Ink on onionskin paper
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