Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape yun-de perched on the corner of

perched on the corner of the drafting table of an artist

I realized after photographing it (at 2x magnification) that the recesses between feathers need a little scrub

perhaps especially the little woman behind the desk

My guess is that this is vintage 1970s or so

Largest: 5 1/4" tall

Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape yun-de perched on the corner ofI 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