This cavernous interior setting with a bloody red palette suggests a sense of somber sacrifice. Imbued with ideas of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, There Is No Finished World portrays the precariousness of life and its cyclical regeneration. Masson identified the three Greek figures in this work as the half-man, half-goat god, Pan (left); the goddess of the harvest, Demeter (center); and the bull-headed monster, the Minotaur (right). Painted in 1942, in the midst of World War II, Masson reflected on the artist’s role in such times, “We are living in an extremetly disturbed moment of history, and it is not necessary…that the painter conceal the disquietude of his epoch.”