Humoristique et antifaciste dessin original signé au feutre noir illustrant le roi Victor-Emmanuel III cirant les chaussures d'un Mussolini menaçant

Humorous and antifascist original drawing signed in black felt-tip pen by Henry-Paul Gassier depicting King Victor Emmanuel III on his knees polishing the shoes of Mussolini, who is brandishing a club in his left hand and a bottle of castor oil (which the Blackshirts forced political opponents to drink).
The drawing has been mounted on cardboard with slight corner losses.
This drawing entitled "Le bavard" ["The Chatterbox"] was given by Henry-Paul Gassier to his friend and colleague Carlo Rim.
Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author of "Ma belle Marseille" ["My Beautiful Marseille"], a caricaturist, a filmmaker, and was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol as well as Max Jacob and André Salmon, whom he met in Sanary.