Original watercolour from immensely popular fable expected to fetch €50-60,000
An original watercolour illustration of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s child hero The Little Prince, which shows the much-loved character standing in desert sand dunes with his scarf blowing in the wind, is due to be exhibited for the first time.
Saint-Exupéry wrote and illustrated the story of The Little Prince, in which a pilot crashes in the desert where he meets the titular alien who tells him about life on his home planet, in 1942, while he and his wife Consuelo were living in Long Island. It was published in April 1943, and Mary Poppins author PL Travers predicted in the New York Herald Tribune that it would “shine upon children with a sideways gleam” and “strike them in some place that is not the mind”.
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