Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian LandscapeI 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