
Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl, Gustave Klimt, Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Originally published on Art UK.
'The revelation of personal sensibility, the quality of the sketch...is overlaid and smothered by labour.' – Kenneth Clark
When is an artwork truly finished?
And why, despite the many hours an artist spends before a canvas perfecting a painting, are we sometimes more attracted to the incomplete version?