Chaloi Leonty Oil on Paper Winter Landscape Painting, 1970 treen shoe and with a really nice

and with a really nice warm patina

but I personally would not touch it

and this feels like a very special piece indeed

With a little googling one can photos of a rainbow array of these

native to Southeast Asia

Chaloi Leonty Oil on Paper Winter Landscape Painting, 1970 treen shoe and with a really niceI've gone back to the same dealer in Russia three times now to purchase paintings by Chaloi Leonty, whose estate the dealer handles; I just think he was a really good landscape painter, and Russian prices are pretty good! The other two I've just listed, featuring sea views, are not what I imagine when I think of Russia, but this wintery landscape most certainly is though it reminds me a bit of long winters in the Purple Mountains of Western Mass, too!