BIB_ID
345307
Accession number
MA 4957.3
Creator
Pages, Jean, 1903-1976
Display Date
1944
Credit line
Gift of Albert E. Labouchere, 1993.
Description
1 drawing
28 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed "J. Pagès 44."
Provenance
Albert E. Labouchere.
Summary
The drawing depicts French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Algiers during the last year of his life. He is shown performing a favorite trick: rolling and orange on a piano keyboard to imitate the sound of a work by Debussy.
Medium
Pen and black ink, and brush and black ink wash, on wove paper.
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