BIB_ID
406058
Accession number
MA 8615.17
Display Date
ca. 1942-1943.
Credit line
Purchased on the Heineman Fund, 2014.
Description
1 item; 11.7 x 11.7 cm, with two scalloped ediges
Notes
Part of Joseph Cornell's Saint-Exupéry dossier (MA 8615), a collection of drawings and ephemera that Cornell assembled to document his friendship with Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.
Provenance
Joseph Cornell; his sister Helen Jagger; her daughter Helen Jagger Batcheller; her son Edward Batcheller.
Summary
Cocktail napkin from Le Café Arnold, restaurant at 240 Central Park South, New York (Where Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry lived in 1941-42), marked in ink "étoile perdue" and "cielo," with drawings of stars and a pair of lips, possibly by Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry. On verso: "star lost in my mouth / sky."
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