Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard of Houses Between Mountains and Sea sewing scissors made especially great by the

made especially great by the white cuff separating plate blue sleeve from pink hand

the bottom of this basket shows the museum accession number for it

as they seemed rather less concerned with the details of the face of this presumably Dutch man--sweetly and a bit hesitantly penciling in eyes

7 1/2" tall x 3 1/4" wide and deep

features an elegant relief design in shades of silver

Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard of Houses Between Mountains and Sea sewing scissors made especially great by theI 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