I'm vindicated! "Dogs Playing Poker" painting brings almost $600,000!

[Lex]

Per CNN . . .



NEW YORK (AP) -- 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.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/15/dogs.playing.poker.ap/index.html

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Way cool! What'll Dogs Shooting pool get ya?

[Dookus]

2. We need

to wait for Kincade to paint it.

[Lex]

4. Kinkade . . . painter of trite?

Maybe they could play poker outside a lovely cottage.

[Lex]

3. Hee hee.

The best part of the story was

" . . . poker game played by five dogs, among them a St. Bernard that ends up collecting the pot on a bluff."

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Who knew that the St. Bernard was bluffing?! And that he won the pot? :wtf:

Jeez, I'm up too late.

[Borgnine]

5. Is it wrong that I would love to own one? n/t

[RadicalMom]

7. Me, too! I want them and I'm just an artist, not a poker player.

But my dogs play poker when I'm not lookin'. They never put the deck back where it belongs. And Thomas couldn't paint the dogs playing pool, he's not skilled enough. Maybe he can paint a granny in the cottage playing pool. Nah, not good enough for that. Painter of tripe.

[Bridget Burke]

8. Kinkade can't draw or paint worth a damn & claims he produces....

"Fine art"--for which he overcharges. (Actually, a visit to his website reveals some landscapes not as dreadful as his signature "painter of light" stuff; still, similar work is available at Bed, Bath & Beyond for a much better price.)

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge was a gifted commercial artist whose work continues to amuse. Coolidge is also credited with creating the life-size Boardwalk cutouts into which one's head is placed, allowing the person to be photographed as a character or animal, .... Coolidge was also a banker, shopkeeper, inventor and painter. He even penned an opera.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/16/news/newsmakers/poker_dogs/?cnn=yes

Kinkade is not fit to clean his brushes.

[Lex]

9. Kinkade is of the same caliber as those guys who

paint pictures of the dogs and kitties with big, sad eyes.

[RadicalMom]

10. I prefer to call him Thomas Kink-Aid. A visit to one of his mall stores

is quite an experience, as you watch the artistically-challenged people gaze upon his limited edition wonders, with awe and admiration, speaking, literally, in hushed tones, debating whether to find a way to afford one of those little Hallmarky (actually, Hallmark has better taste)pieces which are so amazing(most over-used word of this century). Makes me want to, well you know, oh yeah, makes me want to cough up some more KinkAids.

Love the Coolidge info, and now I wish I could have met him. I studied painting with Ed Paschke, the noted Chicago School painter who just, sadly, passed away. He made his name by painting people in neon colored paintings,wearing S&M masks, (including his socialite commissined subjects) dwarves, and a lot of other off subjects. He was just really taking off when I was studying with him. He taught us the techniques of the Dutch Masters, whose realistic luminous paintings were legendary. That was our foundation from him. He used those techniques in his avant garde work, and at the time had completed a series of colored pencil, magnificently rendered, shoes and purses, sprouting warts and pubic hair. He was the most soft spoken loveable, gentle man. I'm so sad that he's gone.

[huellewig]

6. I wonder if they can claim copyright on all the other pictures..

and collect on them?

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Maybe there's hope for my "Velvet Elvis" yet...

especially now that I've installed lights all around the perimeter of the frame, with a music box that plays "Love Me Tender" when you touch his guitar. eBay, here I come!