They're in stark contrast to an earlier picture he'd rather forget.

I want to have an early picture of my baby to show my friends and family.

Because even my earliest pictures seem to have, I don't know, something.

He made several of his early pictures for just $1,000 apiece.

"It must be the most important early Italian picture to have been on the market in a generation," he added.

This show presents late works along with a selection of earlier pictures.

Some of the nearby rocks turned out to be smaller than they had seemed in earlier pictures.

"We found that the earlier pictures were the ones everyone responded to the most," she said.

Unlike the earlier picture, though, he doesn't seem to be looking at anything.

Nor was it painted on top of an earlier picture.