Compare those stagy photographs to his picture of an old man in front of two Rembrandt portraits at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
And in his day, Jan van Huysum, for instance, could fetch more for a still life than, say, a Rembrandt portrait.
His collages can range through images of male pinups, Rembrandt portraits, pieces of old tapestry and Barbra Streisand posters.
The gaze in a 400-year-old Rembrandt portrait and the supple line of an ancient Greek statue astound with their freshness.
You can fall in love with a Scorsese film or a Rembrandt portrait, but it's a one-way relationship.
On the stands are everything from a $50 million Rembrandt portrait to a $300 Roman coin.
The reason, experts there say, has a lot to do with a Rembrandt portrait of a young woman that failed to sell at auction last year.
It could be a face on the cover of a glossy men's fashion magazine or a face from a dour Rembrandt portrait.
As much as the Rembrandt portraits, to the world, are masterpieces, to my eye, after repeated visits, they are old friends.
A typical Rembrandt portrait would have a plain dark background with the subject defined by spotlighting.