When Mozzie tells him, Neal’s first thought is that now Peter can catch him, and he concentrates solely on rectifying that problem; yet when he comes home later and sees the empty easel there, he thinks about “Morning in Mortmartre”, “Girl with the daisies”, “Swallows on their way to Egypt” and even that cursed Chrysler painting; he angrily knocks down the easel and wonders, what gave Mozzie the right to destroy two years of his work?
Neal -- The portrait