Andrey Sinitsa (Russian, 1955–2021), Spring in Leningrad, 1987

Painting of a woman wearing a white cashmere wool turtleneck sweater and gray slacks standing by the River Neva with the Winter Palace sitting in the background on the opposite shore. Her elbows are raised forming a rough rectangle, she's simultaneously all angles and yet soft due to the fabric of her clothes. Her hair is blowing in the wind. It must be very early spring, the sky is cloudy and the wind seems high, there's little caps of ice in the river.