Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard of Houses Between Mountains and Sea key organizer with a few tears and

with a few tears and folds near the top

Nicely executed in ink wash/watercolor and mounted to a backing sheet the perfect shade of blue

mottled oatmeal colored glaze and dark brown patterning  While quintessentially mid-century

with a wonderful decorative

it could be kept on the desk just to be picked up now and then as it feels great to hold

Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard of Houses Between Mountains and Sea key organizer with a few tears andI keep going back to the same seller in Russia to purchase paintings by Chaloi Leonty, whose estate the dealer handles, as I have yet to buy one that I don't love, and you all seem to like them too. I think he was a really good painter, and I particularly love his small scale oils on cardboard; little painterly gems. The combination of sky and sea on this one I think is especially great, framing what one imagines is a cozy little village situated in