Monday, 27 September 2021

Unfinished master paintings

The Art Assignment takes us on a tour of master paintings left unfinished, for one reason or another. Elizabeth Shoumatoff's watercolor of President Roosevelt is a morbid classic of the genre: he suffered the cerebral hemorrage that killed him while sitting for the portrait, murmuring "I have a terrific pain in the back of my head" after slumping all but dead before her. — Read the rest