And once the second painting left for the retrospective, he had an empty wall to fill.
The paintings left in his estate were not accessible until the death of his daughter in 1999.
Some paintings left at his death show only traces of his previous skill.
So this is not - nor could it be - the painting as it left Titian's studio 450 years ago.
I had to tell buyers we could not guarantee the painting could leave France.
A mother's life-size painting leaves her children in a quandary.
The painting and sculpture of the Renaissance may have left me cold, but its architecture fascinated me.
His 1960 painting "Fair" is featured on her March cover, left.
At the top, there is a horizontal strip that was added after the painting left the studio and that will now be removed.
The protesters won, and the paintings did not leave Taiwan.