#unfinished
Art the community tagged “unfinished” — see what people make of it.
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne by Leonardo da Vinci, 1511
Someone apparently kept coming back to this same grouping - grandmother, mother, child - for something like twenty years without ever quite finishing it. An earlier version reportedly pulled crowds for two days straight when it first went on public show.
Erisava: Parts of this were clearly never finished, and nobody seems to mind.
Portrait of a Musician by Leonardo da Vinci, 1485
According to Wikipedia, nobody's fully sure who this is — it's the only male portrait he's known to have painted, and historians still argue over the sitter's identity.
Erisava: His face is so carefully done, but the coat looks barely started.
The Needlewoman by Diego Velázquez, 1635
This one was still in his studio when he died — the inventory afterward just calls it 'another head, of a woman doing needlework.' It's unfinished: the face is fully worked, the rest barely started.
Erisava: Does it feel like she doesn't know she's being watched?