Portrait of a person smoking a cigarette; probably that of the writer and journalist André David, whose address in Beverly Hills was noted at the top of the page by Saint-Exupéry: " 23 South Reeves Drive Beverly Hills California".
7.000€
Antoine de SAINT-EXUPÉRY (1900.1944)
Pen drawing & signed autograph notes
One page in quarto. Browning in the upper left corner.
New York. Undated [1941 or 1942]
Portrait of a person smoking a cigarette; probably that of the writer and journalist André David (1899-1988) whose address in Beverly Hills was noted by Saint-Exupéry at the top of the page: " 23 South Reeves Drive Beverly Hills California".
André David founded the "Ambassadors' Conferences" to promote French culture. At the beginning of the Second World War, he was able to take refuge in the United States where he directed the French Institute founded in Hollywood by Charles Boyer.
Alongside the drawing, Saint-Exupéry wrote his name and his New York address: “St Ex 240 Central P[ark]”.