UNFINISHED PAINTINGS: NARRATIVES OF THE NON-FINITO: WATSON GORDON LECTURE 2014

Unfinished paintings can be seen in many of the world s great collections, including that of the National Gallery of Scotland: they fascinate the viewer and raise intriguing questions. What circumstances left them incomplete? What do they tell us about the ways that painters worked? How do we define finish , and when did an artist consider a work to be finished? These and other questions will be considered by David Bomford, in an exploration of the non-finito from the Renaissance to the 20th century. The Watson Gordon Lecture Series: The Watson Gordon Lectures, established in 2006, typify the long-standing collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and the National Galleries of Scotland. Each lecture is by a leading scholar and reveals new research on a focused topic. The lectures are delivered and published annually, and now number eight titles in the series. Also available: The Hardest Kind of Archetype : Reflections on Roy Lichtenstein ISBN 9781906270384 Picasso s Toys for Adults , Cubism as Surrealism ISBN 9781906270261 Roger Fry s Journey: From Primitives to the Post-Impressionists ISBN 9781906270117 Sound, Silence, and Modernity in Dutch Pictures of Manners ISBN 9781906270254