Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard Landscape with Tree in Rock, 1965 eye-catching Nothing is better than finding

Nothing is better than finding a great piece that comes with the story of its making written directly upon it

All carved from one piece of wood

1950s pastel drawings by Tatiana McKinney (1909-2008) I have in the shop--and they are both truly luminous

it  would make a terrific paperweight on a stylish desk or a subtle yet striking addition to a grouping of any manner of interesting objects

All pieces are impressed on the bottom with the round Jugtown Ware stamp

Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard Landscape with Tree in Rock, 1965 eye-catching Nothing is better than findingI'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! This impressionistic oil on cardboard may be my favorite yet really a little gem of a painting, and I could look at that sunlit tree against painterly clouds and radiant blue sky all day. I might guess this was was painted along the