Oil on Cardboard 1989 Russian Landscape by Chaloi Leonty gold leaf Perfect for carrying swimming goggles

Perfect for carrying swimming goggles

One could easily stick a cork or any old stopper in it to use that way

some surface scratching to the paint on his front and aging to the paint in general

cracks or flaws

but now just clangs a bit when one sets it down

Oil on Cardboard 1989 Russian Landscape by Chaloi Leonty gold leaf Perfect for carrying swimming gogglesI think this is a little gem of a landscape, oil on cardboard and just over 5x7, though with a much larger presence! It's the work of Russian artist Chaloi Leonty, which I purchased from a member of the artists familyand which took about a month to make its way to me packed in nothing more than a simple unpadded envelope! From what I understand, Leonty was born in 1929 in the Urals, and graduated from the Leningrad Art College in 1955, where he