That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 13, 2023

My original post in 2019:

The microfilm was exactly where his informant told him it would be.

My original comment: “Wait a minute. This is no Picasso, he’s only 4 years old right now!”

/// When sufficient clean paper he lacks,

a strapped artist will use fronts and backs.

For the thrift it provides

he will draw on both sides.

(Some Great Masters did this, not just hacks.)

/// The Connoisseur here is well-named.

The art he holds was double-framed.

On the front side one sees

landscapes of sky and trees.

He viewed nudes on the back unashamed.

the origins of the laptop

Rug samples was just right – the rug would match the sofas perfectly!

A painting of a painting of a painting? How meta.

She wrote the note saying she was leaving him for the stableboy on the back of their wedding portraits. Sort of trading the groom for the Head Groom.

Parchesi what?, I thought that was a snack food.

“I without guilt confess to God of Heaven that I willing allowed myself to be ravi…”

Bill had no idea why he wanted it or where to hang it, but it was a bargain on Amazon day

After a morning at the races of those new motorcars, Aldus spent most of the afternoon on the sofa leaning from side to side going’ “Vroom! Vroom!”

“Woe is me!” thinks the head on the floor./

“It’s all over – he’s made a new score../

I don’t mean to sound bitter/

But I’m left with the litter:/

He doesn’t love me any more..”

Shucks, I expected some nudity………

“Gotta say, the frame has a lot more artistic merit than the painting.”

A young Col. Sanders, freshly discharged, ponders his next move in life.

Turning it around won’t improve it.

The connoisseur: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Connoisseur" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Chavet, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly B5 paper size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2108 (1/3/19) (July 12, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist. So far, only work by this artist used here (2 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the January 3, 2019, strip being its first use. The artist info URL in my comment there is no longer available.

Leonard couldn’t stop staring at Hunters laptop pics.

“The Connoisseur,” 1875

BACK WHEN THERE WAS NO PAPER JUST WOOD FLATS, DR. ZOT IS LOOKING AT PLAYBOY CENTERFOLD

Nuthin is remembered like a victim who’s dismembered in the mor-ornin’…

Nuthin says “Howdy” like a message from a Saudi in the mor..

He’s just checking the provenance…

That bust on the floor’s a Houdon/

Though Canova is much better known/

It’s a true chef d’oeuvre/

That belongs in the Louvre/

That’s where all chefs d’oeuvre are shown…