Unfinished business – Eight works testing the market for ‘incomplete’ Old Masters
Do unfinished pictures appeal to connoisseurs? On the one hand you can argue that they show the working methods and creative process of the artist. On the other, they could be considered scraps left over by a painter or a remnant of a long-abandoned project that surely few collectors could want?
While unfinished drawings and preparatory sketches are a regular fixture of the works on paper secto…