An American in Paris

In an early scene from Gene Kelly's An American in Paris his character, Jerry Mulligan, is seen setting up his stall of paintings in Montmartre. A well-to-lady, Milo Roberts, comes by and asks him how much his paintings are. "Gee, I don't know!" he cries.

"You don't know?"

"Well, " explains Jerry, "I never thought I'd come to the point where that would be an issue."

Recently a real-life Milo asked this Jerry the same question, and I'm afraid I had to give much the same answer. To set this right I have now re-edited my previous posts with an asking price included for those paintings that are for sale. Please send me an e-mail if you're interested; they make great Christmas presents.

As for the market scene that I was working on, the fear that I felt before starting it proved justified. I have put it aside for a while and will return once my hair has grown back. In the meantime I have been painting a roast pig that I saw in Cuenca. It's perhaps a bit morbid, and reminiscent of my earlier cow-heads picture, but should turn out well nevertheless. I hope to post the result before too long.