Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape spice cup Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum

Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum

) but best I think just as an interesting sculptural object

6 1/4" tall (not including fringe) x 4" wide and in excellent

Carved from one piece of wood

Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape spice cup Gustavsberg Porcelain MuseumI purchased a small painting by this same Soviet artist, Chaloi Leonty, several months ago, which was such a gem I went back to the seller in Russia to buy two more, larger in scale. I really love the big lush brushstrokes on this one a great interplay of loose vertical and horizonal gestures. Viewed up close, the painting pretty much completely dissolves into abstraction; it is only from some distance that it takes shape as a landscape, increasingly