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A planned exhibition of his grisaille paintings at the Whitney Museum of American Art had to be canceled.

Bellow, however, could still stop for a sauvignon blanc and a plate of charcuterie when the “Parisian grisaille” — that depthless monochrome that can envelop even the Eiffel Tower — gave him the January blues.

This much was evident in the largely grisaille efforts in her 2016 show at Marian Goodman, where a new softness of line prevailed.

She painted images clipped from magazines in slightly fogged-in grisaille, as if suffused with tragedy.

In 1938, she painted the intriguing grisaille oil “Stargazing in Texas.”