That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 24, 2020

While Pietro tried to stomach the painting, the artist tried his skills on Pietro’s wife.

I asked for a portrait of my mother. I didn’t want it to be a nude!

Matteo was so proud that he came up with the idea of using his own fecal matter to paint with.

Sweetheart, you’re a genius! You got him so drunk that he’s going to puke all over the painting, and my insurance will pay out fifty grand for that piece of garbage.

Rube Goldberg commits the perfect crime – a heart attack, a violent sneeze, the painting falls on his head, and the wife is all his!

Ishmael! Here’s the guy who does all those gas station paintings!

An Italian artist paints himself as dashing and irresistible, and the client as an inveterate loser. How very…Italian.

Ogni occasione è buona (every opportunity is good), the artist’s motto, often got him in hot water with husbands…

“If they’d only hold still,I could get this painting finished and I could go take care of these stomach cramps. “

“See, I told you by showing your fiance a nude painting of you would prove he “plays for the other team”. Now we can be together."

Hey you two, break it up! The guy on the poster is watching you over his shoulder.

He’s gonna be pretty flush when this sells.

Was Norman Rockwell an admirer of Quadrone, I wonder.

“Not too bad for a guy who paints with a lobster claw.”

The client is unimpressed/ (and intestinally distressed)/ but as for his “date”/ she will come back late/ when she’ll probably be undressed..

“Hmmmm….you smell nice! Let’s leave before Dominic spoils the atmosphere…”

Artist puts his dead lab’s fur to good use.

Thus ended the “Smell-O-Painting” fad.

I love pranking these pretentious snobs – tell them to look closer, then push their noses into the wet paint.

It looks like he sneezed so hard that the painting tipped off the easel.

See, babe, the poison’s working. Let’s grab the money and get out of here.

Artist whispering to his latest girlfriend: I love surprising my friend, Cee Cee, with a detailed painting of the nude feminine form! His reaction is priceless!

This backseat painting is getting on the artist’s nerves.

Evito sempre l’arte cattiva e i mariti gelosi!

The gory anatomy painting had the desired effect on Argan,- Le malade imaginaire, – allowing Cléante and Angélique to canoodle behind his back.

Every Occasion is Good: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quadrone-Occasion.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly B4 paper size, oil on panel painting. So, it’s about an inch wider than legal paper size, turned on its side. Maybe it’s just me, but, I find this amount of detail in such a small space impressive.

http://www.sba.it/en/artists/quadrone-giovanni-battista-biografia-quadri-in-vendita-postmacchiaioli-valutazione-stima-perizia-certificata-di-dipinti-di-quadrone-giovanni-battista/ 

http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/en/GiovanniBattistaQuadrone.html 

http://www.enricogallerie.com/it/artist/pittore_quadrone_giovanni_battista_468 

https://www.deartibus.it/drupal/content/quadrone-giovanni-battista 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2499 (July 23, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Marcel was OK with his portrait, but he wondered how the artist managed to paint his wife’s nude body so accurately.

Another fine day at the loony bin, Herkimer Flit playing Napoleon, Floyd Proot as a young Liberace and Gertrude Speck as Typhoid Mary.

the artist ( in white) and his gal pal, make husband sick to he won’t notice their hanky-panky.

Although she is fully dressed/ the painter sees plenty of breast/ when her spouse passes out/ without any doubt/he’ll get to see all the rest.

How does he keep his clothes so clean? Perhaps he uses white paint on black velvet?

I told you this frame depicts the future … Napoleon – he not like it so much …

considering that this strip is produced without any time or effort devoted to drawing, just why is it this thingcan’t be seven days a week? Is there really that much time and effort involved in looking at a bunch of paintings and picking one out that you can hang a funny caption on?