That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 25, 2015

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 10 years ago

    Dumbledore turns a stray puppy into a teenage boy.

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    puddlesplatt  almost 10 years ago

    the smell couldn’t get any worse!

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    maldo  almost 10 years ago

    This is one of the (many) times I wish Mr. Melcher would put the real title of the painting along with the artist and date. @Number Six, if I understand your comment correctly, I think the shirtless youth was performing that ancient act which was a rite of passage for grade school boys, the simulation of breaking wind with the hand in the armpit.

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    J Short  almost 10 years ago

    Hey buddy, could you spare a sleeve?

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    stamps  almost 10 years ago

    The title is “The Return of the Prodigal Son” and a clic-to-enlarge image can be found here

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    Arianne  almost 10 years ago

    Please, don’t make me go back in there. Those bachelorettes are crazy!

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    JanBic Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Mr Melcher,Could you please post larger images? Even the enlarged versions show too little detail to make the joke appreciated.Thank you.

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    mabrndt Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    A somewhat enlarged image can be found at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry (yesterday). Again, it is a cropped image (signature at lower left chopped off). A full, enlarged image can be found here.The Return of the Prodigal Son (link shows parable’s Wikipedia page) is privately owned (shows different coloration, cropped image, this has the 1980 price). Two years later its price more than tripled.It is described in the Lot Notes included in its 1992 auction result notice (click Cancel if you don’t want to print, price again nearly doubled). This says who purchased it.So far, 524 works by this artist have been put online by the Brooklyn Museum, one of which, is another version (click for full size)

    described here. As it states, the Prodigal Son was in several of his paintings; another version is pointed to in this description.A different coloration, less cropped than here, click-to-enlarge image of the strip painting, can be found here. Another 112 works (111 currently have images) by him have been put online by the Jewish Museum. The artist’s bio, Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page has more) and collection (many, many more under Subcategories at each level).Seventh, of the 9 works, by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here (7 total).
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    helen ferrx  almost 10 years ago

    James, ’ tis so Trench……ant

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Another work by this artist can be found here.

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