Chaloi Leonty, Soft Landscape with Mountains and Sea, 1991, Oil on Cardboard old painting I am not certain of

I am not certain of its origin--the palette and design feels rather Scandinavian

and lifts off of the the shoe-shaped piece below

I'd guess the Mich at the bottom may refer to Michigan but am not sure

paperclips--whatever

with horizontal folds that should flatten out pretty easily if pressed under something heavy and a little staining here and there and along the left edge

Chaloi Leonty, Soft Landscape with Mountains and Sea, 1991, Oil on Cardboard old painting I am not certain ofI keep going back to the same seller in Russia to purchase paintings by Chaloi Leonty, whose estate the dealer handles, as I have yet to buy one that I don't love, and you all seem to like them too. I think he was a really good painter, and I particularly love his small scale oils on cardboard; little super painterly gems. I really love the softness of the sky and two large hills or mountains in this one, giving the whole thing a wonderfully moody