To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow... the coup de graêce for the painter as well as for the picture.
Bio: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian peasant, mystical faith healer and a trusted friend to the family of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia.
