That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 21, 2017

“Should I call 911 or finish the painting?”

Still life? Maybe not…

The model was holding a cardboard sign: Will Work for Heroin.

She shouldn’t have accepted the drink that Bill C. offered.

I don’t know what is going on behind her, but maybe the sight of that caused her to faint dead away.

Still life with corpse.

Is that an apple she’s holding in her right hand? Sleeping Beauty?

3 URLs (each is one line): 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Powell_Frith_-_The_Sleeping_Model.JPG 

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

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/183 

has info about this artist. So far, 4 works by him have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/01/13?comments=visible 

has the prior strip.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1785 (September 20, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

This is too easy, I don’t even have to finish the painting.

The story behind the painting is amusing. Check out the note by the Royal Academy at www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?record=O1206 on their website.

If she had lived, “Frith’s Mother” would have eclipsed Whistler’s

The precursor to Photoshop making the model look more interesting.

taking Lois’s picture just before she takes off on her space ship

yes, I recognize the figure behind the sleeping model is a mannequin, but why is the head on backward?