Signature, help dismantle please!
 

I can not understand the way it is written in the picture!
I do not know whether it makes sense to do what that assessment or examination.
I want to sell the painting.

Is almost impossible to sell!

Well, scary picture, but I do not need it, too

If we assume a long left leg at the "L", it can be read as Yakovlev.


Although I would put this picture in the theme of "terrible, horrible"))) "half-dressed-kus-ku klanovets")))

Something of what he had seen recently ..
 The painting A.E.Yakovleva "Dance of the Cooley- Kut, Niamey " ( 1926 ), " ( sold at Sotheby's in 2010 for $ 1,458,736 .) Depicts the ancient dance of the Cooley- Kut, imitating the human sacrifices made ​​when- then in this area : the priestess sharpens knives and preparing to bring the most beautiful girls of the tribe as a sacrifice to God of thunder and lightning Sango .

Well, it's another matter. Noble occupation for the benefit of the tribe.
Kuli- Kuta seems cool dance!
 And in this sketch , the man in the course , he wants to cut yourself something . Already try on a knife as comfortable <! - ~ 1 ~ ->
 In the words of our president , too , by the way the artist : "... cut off so that it no longer grows "

Yes, I understand that this Yakovlev ), but that's what ! The picture is all we have since the 90s , where it came from no one knows .. but like what the artist is famous enough , in general as it wants to sell it , maybe it does not hang but just standing in the fabric wrapped .. because it is an amateur )

Added after 3 minutes
the first letter of A or L?
somebody knows what this could sec that?
Yakovlev full

" Cooley -Kut ", " Cooley -Kut " ... Yes is a regular guy - sitter ( on the penis - a bag ), and in between sessions with a knife his nails on his left hand cuts ... Completely unromantic , of course. But - truth.
But what was scrawled on the right of the figure - Tse question.

this knife?

The knife is holding a closed grip, so the nails are not trimmed and pencils are not sharpened.
 
But for seppuku (hara-kiri in Russian) is the most time

Perhaps the author Vasily Yakovlev?
He had a similar sitter.

He wrote more complete, is not it widish.

Yes, and was masterful.