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High Stakes

Remember those paintings of dogs playing poker? Two of them just sold for a lot of Kibbles and Bits. From AP/Yahoo:

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 wonder if the "velvet versions" are worth anything?

Posted by Jeff Soyer at February 17, 2005 08:09 AM