Mstislav Valerianovitch DOBUJINSKI (1875-1957) A town in the province, 1956 Ink. Signed, located in Paris and dated lower left. Titled on the back "A city in the province" and annotated "Gift of the author / to Mrs. Anne Cherkessoff / X.1956". 19,5 x 35,5 cm Dedication to Anna Alexandrovna Cherkessova (1895-1984), born Benois, daughter of Alexander Nikolaevich Benois, wife of Yuri Yourevich Cherkessov (1900-1943), painter and illustrator. She herself was a painter, a pupil of her father; after the death of her husband, she became the secretary of her father Alexander Benois and the curator of his archives. [Russian art]