One can still see his rhythmical, seemingly effortless graphic virtuosity in the forms that spin and loop across a few of these late canvases.
Their latest canvas, the police said, was the Bronx, which is a mecca for the world's spray-painting cognoscenti.
These latest canvases depict fellow artists also known for their portraits or self-portraits.
"Rain, Steam and Speed" is a late canvas.
At times, these late canvases, divided vertically, then subdivided horizontally, seem more like reliefs.
On a more immediate level, one subject to surer critical control, the challenge of Titian's late canvases involves their complex address to the viewer.
In his latest canvas, however, he had returned to the pedagogic genre in which he was reared, though with a new message.
Gowing describes these latest canvases, even the most violent, as "classically serene."
He was not aware that he was the subject of her latest canvas.
His latest canvases have the patina of trodden- and dripped-upon scraps from the studio floor.