A young woman shown in profile against a clean white ground, her bare shoulder and back turned partly toward us and a long dark braid falling down her side. Her eyes are lowered, her lips a soft red, and balanced on the crown of her head sits a small brown sparrow, painted with enough care that you can pick out the streaks on its wings. Igor Shulman keeps everything else pared back so the quiet pairing of the girl and the bird carries the whole picture. Oil on canvas from 2017, a 60 by 60 centimetre square.