Girl with a Black Bow — Mykola Pymonenko Postcard

Alongside his great village scenes, Mykola Pymonenko painted children with unusual tenderness — close-up studies in which the subject neither poses nor performs. This small portrait of a blonde girl in a white apron, a black bow set in her hair, has the directness of a quick afternoon — a few minutes lifted out of a household and held.

As an A6 art postcard, the image carries beautifully. A favourite for sending a piece of Ukrainian portrait painting to a friend, or for collectors of Ukrainian art postcards.