That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 17, 2020

The moment Gaugin realized he rather be in Tahiti.

It’s so hot the trees are melting, and we have to wear 6 layers of clothing because 5 is immodest!

“This is so boring. We could’ve been posing naked in one of Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings. Sigh.”

“Well, Dear, I think you should canvas the neighborhood, and give the brush to those men who seem too eager. You’ve already let an artist have his way with you. There’s nothing to keep you here except watching paint dry; just get in your van and go!”

“Don’t mind the wavy black apparition at your feet – he belongs to the spectre on the stairs from yesterday.”

“Cheer up, Lizzie. Thanks to post-Impressionism no one will ever know about the wart on your nose that could scare a sailor into a life of sobriety. That’s a joke honey. Everyone knows there’s no such thing as a sober sailor.”

“I hate that impressionist. He only gave me one eye.”

I never knew Gauguin used to paint like that, geez. I feel edumacated.

Her friends began to call her “Loony Mary” when she told them she could see dark tears in the fabric of the universe through which she sighted half-nude women in exotic landscapes…

The little gnome witch grated them 3 wishes: wish one was NOT for a husband, but to live somewhere warm and exotic.

Painting on the wall of the optometrist’s office, just above the sign that says “have your eyes checked today”.

“What are you sitting on?”

“The gardener.”

The result of a severe case of astigmatism attempting a really detailed paint-by-number canvas.

“I am sorry Gertie but we will never get you married off until we can tell would be suitors if you are a cat or a dog owner. We must figure out what that thing is!”

Why Gauguin never made it as a portraitist.

Yeah, I’m not sure if it’s a cat either. Hey, you don’t think we might be wearing each others contacts?

“Dang it Marge. Why can’t we find an outhouse with walls? Even the gophers can watch us do our business in these open air models!”

(Yesterday’s "outhouse with no walls effort failed to find an audience so I’m trying again today. And forever if necessary until somebody gives me a “Pity Like”!)

With this new invention, you can sit anywhere, anytime you want. It’s a chair, it’s a dress….It’s a chair IN a dress!! The Chair-Dress. And if you call now, we’ll include the Hat-Box

“Damn this dress is a drag,” thought Ken.

It was getting harder and harder to dream up disguises to see Amelia without her husband knowing. That mutt almost gave him away, this time.

“Amelia”? What became of Barbi ?

Conversation: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gauguin_1885_Conversation.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

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

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3125/paul-gauguin 

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/255/paul-gauguin-french-1848-1903/ 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/gauguin/gauguin_bio.htm 

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/paul-gauguin 

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Gauguin 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/paul-gauguin/ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/g/gauguin/biograph.html 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Paul_Gauguin/9000044/Paul_Gauguin.aspx 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-gauguin 

http://www.impressionniste.net/gauguin_paul.htm 

https://prabook.com/web/paul.gauguin/729130 

http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/4-france04.htm 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/gauguin-paul.htm 

http://hoocher.com/Paul_Gauguin/Paul_Gauguin.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 5 works by him have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/07/09?comments=visible 

has the prior work (but, sadly, it has disappeared from the archive; hopefully, it’ll be restored soon, including all reader’s comments). 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/03/08?comments=visible 

has the one before that (my comment there included 6 of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2537 (September 16, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“And I always say, ’How do I do that with no Monet!?”

“But the lady the other day just showed up, and people came from everywhere!”

“Oh.” “No way, I don’t believe it!”

“It depends on how much clothing you have? But it is the clothing that makes the man or woman!”

“Nobody is showing up because I chose a fence post instead of a lamp post! That must be it!”

“Soooo…does that toy witch do anything else?”