Where is the absolute original “Dogs Playing Poker” painting displayed?
August 23, 2010 :: Posted by - admin :: Category - Q&A Forum
Question by Theo: Where is the absolute original “Dogs Playing Poker” painting displayed?
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Answer by Jack P
It’s privately owned. I saw it on TV recently but wasn’t paying enought attention to remember who it was that owns it.
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August 23rd, 2010 at 8:31 am
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Dogs Playing Poker refers collectively to a series of sixteen oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge, commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars.[1] All the paintings in the series feature anthropomorphized dogs, but the nine in which dogs are seated around a card table have become derisively well-known in the United States as examples of mainly working-class taste in home decoration. Critic Annette Ferrara describes Dogs Playing Poker as “indelibly burned into … the American collective-schlock subconscious … through incessant reproduction on all manner of pop ephemera.”[2]
The titles in the “Dogs Playing Poker” series proper are:
A Bold Bluff
A Friend in Need
His Station and Four Aces
Pinched with Four Aces
Poker Sympathy
Post Mortem
Sitting up with a Sick Friend
Stranger in Camp
Waterloo
These were followed in 1910 by a similar painting, Looks Like Four of a Kind.
On February 15, 2005, the originals of A Bold Bluff and Waterloo were auctioned as a pair to an undisclosed buyer for US $590,400. The previous top price for a Coolidge was $74,000.[3]
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