That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 23, 2015

Model wondering why the statue has on more clothes than her.

Unless there are two sculptures, “Before” and “After”?

Looks like someone’s too plastered to work again.

Now that’s a guy who is too wrapped up in his work.

He won’t pay her. What a chiseler.

Because of long hours, lousy pay and drafty working conditions, model walks off the job.

A modestly enlarged image can be found at the only work, by this artist (NYT has father and uncle names interchanged), so far, to appear in Mr. Melcher’s blog (yesterday). Again, it is a slightly cropped image.A Restoration is privately owned. It is shown, with a different coloration, click-to-humongous image, and described, by a past auction result page.The artist grew up around the studio of his father and uncle; but, they had both died at least a decade before this 1891 (below signature, right side of bottom step) painting. His Wikipedia page and collection.First work, by this artist, to appear here.P.S. The George R.R. Martin referred to by Mr. Melcher.

I suspect the artist has a snarky sense of humor.

Too true!

Or is he just getting inspiration for the next book’s massacre, The Clay Wedding?

George R.R. Martin memorializing a scene from “Game of Thrones.”

“He’s got that sculpture draped, but he posed me nekkid. Oh, well. He’s the artist. I guess he know what he’s doing.”

“Lazy Mary, you better get up – we need the sheets to cover the table…..”

It takes so long to get them undressed it’s hardly worth it.

Is that “what” George has been doing or “who”?

bathroom break

bathroom break

At first after Edouard realized how hard it was going to be to get the pubes right he had the model shave then he decided to just carve the statue with a big sheet on.