watercolour, 22 x 30 ", 2023    

CAD 5,250.00 Framed

Antoine Saint Exupery, the well known author of Le Petit Prince was also a pilot for l’Aeropostale, France’s airborne postal service from the late 1920s/early 1930s. He and his fellow pilots delivered the mail in dangerous flying conditions, often at night, through sandstorms over the Sahara Desert and thunderstorms over the Atlantic. He disappeared in late WWII while flying reconnaissance missions for the allies.
Earnest Gann chronicled the lives and deaths of these special pilots in his memoire, Fate is the Hunter which is where I get the title for this painting.