Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard Landscape with Tree in Rock, 1965 eye-catching All carved from one piece

All carved from one piece of wood

of Tulsa Oklahoma

Really a beauty

or re-papered

At just shy of 15 inches long

Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard Landscape with Tree in Rock, 1965 eye-catching All carved from one pieceI've gone back to the same dealer in Russia three times now to purchase paintings by Chaloi Leonty, whose estate the dealer handles; I just think he was a really good landscape painter, and Russian prices are pretty good! This impressionistic oil on cardboard may be my favorite yet really a little gem of a painting, and I could look at that sunlit tree against painterly clouds and radiant blue sky all day. I might guess this was was painted along the