Chaloi Leonty, Russian, 1970 Oil on Cardboard River Landscape with Big Sky hand-painted object The fishing pole has a

The fishing pole has a little give up and down but not a lot

but really could not love it more

and would be inclined to hang it on the wall

alternating direction from one to the next

Chaloi Leonty, Russian, 1970 Oil on Cardboard River Landscape with Big Sky hand-painted object The fishing pole has aI 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 especially love the huge painterly blue sky of this one just right against the soft, varied greens and browns of the land and deeper blue of the snaking river. I also love how the bank of trees at center left is perfectly offset by the bridge just to its right, with a