'Dogs Playing Poker' sells for $590,400
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:36:42 -0700
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147801,00.html
NEW YORK — A pair of paintings from the famed series
depicting dogs playing poker fetched nearly $600,000
at auction Tuesday.
The two works — "A Bold Bluff" and "Waterloo" — were
among 16 paintings that artist Cassius Marcellus
Coolidge was commissioned to create for a Minnesota-
based advertising company in 1903. Of the 16, nine
are of dogs playing poker.
The two works that sold Tuesday for $590,400 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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Correspondent:: "Paul Casino"
Date: 16 Feb 2005 17:47:41 -0800
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Is bulldada still bulldada if it brings in that kind of green?
Correspondent:: Artemia Salina
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:46:19 -0500
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:47:41 -0800, Paul Casino wrote:
> Is bulldada still bulldada if it brings in that kind of green?
I actually think it becomes enriched bulldadda at that point.
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Correspondent:: "Paul Casino"
Date: 17 Feb 2005 16:13:31 -0800
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I just recalled there's a whole flow chart about this in the BOTSG, I
just don't have it in front of me right now.
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:49:17 GMT
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>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147801,00.html
>
>NEW YORK — A pair of paintings from the famed series
>depicting dogs playing poker fetched nearly $600,000
>at auction Tuesday.
>
>The two works — "A Bold Bluff" and "Waterloo" — were
>among 16 paintings that artist Cassius Marcellus
>Coolidge was commissioned to create for a Minnesota-
>based advertising company in 1903. Of the 16, nine
>are of dogs playing poker.
>
>The two works that sold Tuesday for $590,400 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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C. M. "Cash" Coolidge did a lot of things over the course of his life:
he was a druggist, a sign painter and founded both a bank and
a newspaper. But he is best remembered for being the guy who
painted those poker playing dogs - and half a century prior to the
Surrealism movement, at that. Additionally, he invented something
that carnival-goers have almost certainly seen: those "cut-outs"
(plywood props with painted figures on them, into which one inserts
his/her head and has a picture taken).
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/namescc/p/coolidge_cm.htm
Correspondent:: HdMrs. Salacia the Overseer
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:11:06 -0600
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:36:42 -0700, "nu-monet v7.0"
wrote:
>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147801,00.html
>
>NEW YORK — A pair of paintings from the famed series
>depicting dogs playing poker fetched nearly $600,000
>at auction Tuesday.
>
>The two works — "A Bold Bluff" and "Waterloo" — were
>among 16 paintings that artist Cassius Marcellus
>Coolidge was commissioned to create for a Minnesota-
>based advertising company in 1903. Of the 16, nine
>are of dogs playing poker.
>
>The two works that sold Tuesday for $590,400 capture
>moments in a poker game played by five dogs, among
>them a St. Bernard that ends up collecting the pot
>on a bluff...
I'm shocked those didn't go for more.