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
(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.
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
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.
BE THIS GUY about 7 years ago
“The painting is $250. What’s behind the partition is $500 extra.”
Melki Premium Member about 7 years ago
This reminds me of a Norman Rockwell painting, only bawdier.
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
Under Dog Premium Member about 7 years ago
Wondering what she would look like without shoes.
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.
Radish the wordsmith about 7 years ago
How much for the statue?
Linguist about 7 years ago
Peek-a-Boo !
me about 7 years ago
Caption is sadly accurate; this aspiring model is exactly the type upon which he preyed.
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.
Bill D. Kat Premium Member about 7 years ago
Comics can certainly benefit from more such as this one. :)
pcolli about 7 years ago
“Forget the painting, I’ll take the model.”
Ushindi about 7 years ago
Mr. Weinstein? Heck, any of us!
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.