Dogs playing poker. Now THAT's Art!
>>>Dogs playing poker. Now THAT's Art!
The art world says you're right.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2005
(AP) A pair of paintings from the famed series depicting dogs playing poker sold for $590,400 at auction today.
The two works — "A Bold Bluff" and "Waterloo" — were among 16 paintings Coolidge was commissioned to create for Brown & Bigelow, a St. Paul, Minnesota-based advertising company, in 1903. Of the 16, nine, including the two sold today, are of dogs playing poker.
The two works capture moments in a poker game played by five dogs, among them a St. Bernard that ends up collecting the pot on a bluff.
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