That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 09, 2017

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    BE THIS GUY  about 7 years ago

    “The painting is $250. What’s behind the partition is $500 extra.”

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    Melki Premium Member about 7 years ago

    This reminds me of a Norman Rockwell painting, only bawdier.

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    J Short  about 7 years ago

    Oh honey, I got your picture hangin’ on the wall. But it can’t see or come to me when I call your name, I realize it’s just a picture inside a frame. Ain’t nothin like the real thing baby, ain’t nothin like the real thing.-Marvin Gaye

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    Under Dog Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Wondering what she would look like without shoes.

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    Usual John Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Usually the captions are humorously inappropriate, but this caption, although equally funny, seems to be exactly what the artist had in mind.

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    Radish the wordsmith  about 7 years ago

    How much for the statue?

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    Linguist  about 7 years ago

    Peek-a-Boo !

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    me  about 7 years ago

    Caption is sadly accurate; this aspiring model is exactly the type upon which he preyed.

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    mabrndt Premium Member about 7 years ago

    In The Artist’s Studio

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Reich_-_Im_K%C3%BCnstleratelier.jpg 

    (best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this before 1963 roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

     

    https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p027184.htm 

    has info about this artist. He currently has no Wikipedia page, but 

    http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Reich,_Adolf 

    shows a German Wikipedia-like page for him (again, Chrome can translate if necessary).

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1821 (November 8, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

     

    P.S. The painting may look familiar to longtime readers of this strip, because back when GoComics still allowed embedded images, I embedded 

    http://warburg.chaa-unicamp.com.br/img/obras/1459_original.jpg 

    in my 

    http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/05/05?comments=visible 

    strip comment, because a Google image search found it in searching for the Jose Ferraz de Almeida Junior painting featured in that strip (Google doesn’t anymore). Anyway, it shows a 1939 work by this artist.

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    Bill D. Kat Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Comics can certainly benefit from more such as this one. :)

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    pcolli  about 7 years ago

    “Forget the painting, I’ll take the model.”

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    Ushindi  about 7 years ago

    Mr. Weinstein? Heck, any of us!

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    Snoopy_Fan  about 7 years ago

    I think that male statue in the upper right needs a dose of Viagra. He seems unmoved by the nude female in the room.

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