Mstislav Valerianovitch DOBOUJINSKI (1875-1957)... Lot 188

Mstislav Valerianovitch DOBOUJINSKI (1875-1957) Souvenirs d'Italie, with drawings by the author. A very fine and rare copy of the first edition of 1,000 copies published by Aquilon in St. Petersburg in 1923. Format in-16°, 67 pages. Good condition. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of Fyodor Fyodorovich Nothafft, art lover and collector, researcher at the Hermitage and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.