The Met Breuer "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible"

It's interesting to note that the 1st major exhibit at the new Met Breuer (in what was the Whitney on Madison) is entitled "Unfinished:  Thoughts Left Visible."  As the new transition begins, the artworks represented now are by great master painters and highly esteemed contemporary artists whose works for various reasons remained unfinished.  The works are from the MET's collections.  The top floor contains a plethora of works by major contemporary artists:  Pollack, Twombly, Marden, Mondrian, Newman, Johns, Lewitt, Marshall, & de Kooning are included along with other famous artists.  This gallery is a cornucopia of first-class paintings, sculptures, installations and videos.  With abstract art, it is not clearly defined what constitutes a finished creation.  As much as I enjoyed seeing Twombly's 6 emerald & white oil paintings, de Kooning's abstract figurative painting or one of Pollack's drip paintings, I would assume them to be completed works.  I'll accept the artist's own confirmation that they were unfinished.  An early Mondrian piece utilizes black tape and pencil lines indicative of the direction his modern paintings were headed.  Sol Lewitt's cube sculpture installment shows fragmented   figures.  And, an early grey Jasper John's painting is indicative of his future collage/paintings.  The gallery below contains many breathtaking works by Picasso, Degas, Cezanne, Renoir, Van Gogh and Lucian Freud. Here it is more obvious that the works went unfinished (except for the beautiful Van Gogh.)  Nonetheless, there is an stirring beauty, intrigue and solemnity to the works for having been left incomplete.  The new Met Breuer's first show is first rate and one that I will see several more times although this will not be sufficiently satisfying.