"Water meadow". Ivan Michael?
 

Hello dear friends.
Once again I ask for help from experts in search of an author.
There is a small work of oil on canvas.
Size h,5.
The sub-frame replaced with modern ones.
Date 1923 under the initials I. M.
Assuming that the first letter refers to the name, and the second to the name, I looked through the Rating surnames with the letter M in the ranges:
the birth of the author from 1843 1895;
-the author's death in 1923 and later.
From "similar" found only Ivan Michael.
Ask to speak not only by author, but also artistic value.
With appreciation for any opinion or comment...

To Michael, graduated from the Academy of arts has nothing to do.
Hood. the value is missing.

Good time.
Work, just useless...
With HC.

Dear annagavr, Solovlad.
Please enlighten to increase self, why this work is so hard not to like?
No plot? Or "hand" weak?
Sincerely,

His incompetence and sorry, squalor.
With HC.

Thank You, Solovlad.
Intelligibly.
So, the picture in the furnace, a frame - for sale...
Sincerely,

The theme of loneliness is well transferred in the cow.

You are right!
1923...
Just acromegaly bloody first world war and the civil war.
But the cow survived! One, in the whole district. However right rear leg was lost...

[QUOTE=Solovlad;3279411]Good time.
Work, just useless...
With UV@

The work of commercial. Such work was done by the gang of artists. The composition is structured to allow remounting of images. It rather can be used in the naming, on the boxes... And better execution, or worse - it depends on a particular artist.