Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape yun-de While I’d like to imagine

While I’d like to imagine the maker of the vessel had Magritte’s famous painting “The Treachery of Images” in mind

My guess is that this is vintage 1970s or so

perhaps especially the little woman behind the desk

Largest: 5 1/4" tall

Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape yun-de While I’d like to imagineI 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