“The Melancholic Baby…”

SZYK, ARTHUR

New Canaan, 1948

Pen-and-ink on card. Captioned, signed and dated by the artist.

Captioned below by Szyk: “Abdullah ibn Hussain, the legal King of Hedjaz, fake king of a British fake called Transjordania…(Hejdaz is called Saudi Arabia).” “Abdullah: Some people have all the luck. Farouk has Jewish subject [sic] to steele [sic] their goods, Ibn Saud has my oil royalties… All I have is Bevin’s copy of Mein Kampf and a Glubb over my head…”