They are complemented by a room of preparatory sketches and other works, including later canvases done in Paris, which demonstrate how much his art, despite its lightheartedness, dealt in cultural memory and loss.

After his surgery, he destroyed many later canvases.

His later canvases, large in scale and painted in the grand manner, put monumental figures in everyday situations or used such symbolic images as watermelons, hands and tailor's dummies.

In a later canvas he toned down Jesus' Semitic appearance, giving him blond hair, softer facial features and less emphatic gestures.

On later canvases, they became geometric shapes and eventually quirky but more recognizable images, like a smile and a duck's head.

What is missing from these early works is precisely this cerulean atmosphere that unifies her later canvases.

But while emotional freight seems to enhance their physical beauty, the later canvases can dizzy the viewer with their intimations of otherness.

A later canvas, "Far From" (1964), puts distorted, delicately colored fragments of human, animal, vegetable and more unrecognizable organisms in a milky swim of nuanced white.

A mood of nostalgia colors Lane's later canvases, contributing to the Luminist images he executed near the end of his career and for which the artist was greatly admired before his death.