Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape yun-de I think good to keep

I think good to keep them together

To my eye quite a beautiful thing--a sculpture on its own

perhaps especially the little woman behind the desk

perched on the corner of the drafting table of an artist

amplifying a sense of bareness (as well as bearness

Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape yun-de I think good to keepI 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