Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape spice cup Carved from one piece of

Carved from one piece of wood

It appears to have been hand-painted and additionally features very fine incising on each of the small "petals" that surround the repeating circular forms with black dots

I think it would feel like a pure dose of Hygge

6 1/4" tall (not including fringe) x 4" wide and in excellent

Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape spice cup Carved from one piece 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