That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 06, 2018

Pre Jimmy Hendrix…..

The Serenade: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blaas_Eugene_de_The_Serenade_1910_Oil_On_Canvas.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/blaas_eugene_de.html 

http://www.wikiart.org/en/eugene-de-blaas 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/Blaas1.htm 

http://www.macconnal-mason.com/Blaas-Eugen-von-DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=45&tabindex=44&artistid=56667 

http://hoocher.com/Eugene_de_Blaas/Eugene_de_Blaas.html 

all have info about this artist (who I still believe died in 1931). So far, 16 works (17 times, including 1 repeat) by him have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/12/04?comments=visible 

has the prior work, like this, another of the several he did while in Venice: 

https://www.google.com/search?as_st=y&tbm=isch&hl=en&as_q=%22Eugene+de%22+OR+%22Eugen+von%22+Venetian+OR+Venice+OR+gossip+OR+letter&as_epq=Blaas 

My comment at that prior strip pointed to that and the artist info URLs.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2095 (December 5, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“Another one of his damn original songs. Why can’t he just do ‘Margaritaville’ like everyone else?”

Try not to make eye contact. Hey, Gertrude, stop looking at him!

.." Oh no, he’s singing Tiptoe Through The Tulips again, in that annoying Tiny Tim falsetto voice! If was funny the first time, now time after time!"…

“I wonder what he would sound like if he wasn’t tone deaf?”

“If you’d put your hat on the ground, you might collect enough coins to buy some shoes.”

The two sitting got so engrossed in their conversation, they didn’t realize they’d knitted the Bayeux Tapestry.

“She thinks he’s hot! She actually thinks he’s hot!!”

“That song has a catchy beat, but what’s a ‘Y-M-C-A’?”

I don’t think it is excessive; he did say that the biggest merkin would win.

Are those two knitting an incredibly long scarf?

“…and if I find my hard-headed woman, I know the rest of my life will be blessed. Yes, Yes, Ye-e-e-e-essss!”

Raymundo has two of the four gals on his side with his butch voice. more to come!

I see a Nobel Prize in this man’s future! (Don’t laugh !)

I asked my parents for a cello for my birthday … but did they get me one? Noooo …

I loved you since I knew yaI wouldn’t talk down to yaI have to tell you just how I feelI won’t share you with another boyI know my mind is made upSo put away your make-upTold you once, I won’t tell you again it’s a bad wayRoxanneYou don’t have to put on the red lightRoxanneYou don’t…

“Say Ramon, you wouldn’t have a brother would you, kind of like you but good looking and talented?”

Freebird!!

“Ooh, here comes Blutarsky. He’ll take care of this twit!”

Move your hand just a little closer to my knee, then I’ll sing anything you want.

I don’t think he’ll be a problem for long. I think he and Gertrude are fixin’ta head off behind the wood shed. (It’s why they call it the “wood shed”.)

I like the painter’s sooo Italian name.

“Where, oh where, are you tonight! Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and I thought I found true love, but You met another and now you are gone!”

Eighth grader on the left texting her friends about the lame guitarist her mother is making her listen to.