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Dogs Playing PokerDogs Playing Poker is a series of oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge. In 1903, the advertising firm Brown & Bigelow commissioned a series of 16 paintings from Coolidge to depict dogs acting like humans. Of these 16, nine show the dogs seated around a card table, playing poker and smoking cigars. They show various stages of what might be the same poker game; for example, in "A Bold Bluff", a Saint Bernard's hand can be seen by the viewer but not by the other dogs; in "Waterloo", the Saint Bernard takes his winnings. "Looks Like Four of a Kind" is well-known painting that was a follow-on to the original series. The series has a kitschy appeal that has made it part of American pop culture. For example, in Larry Shue's play The Foreigner, a character staying in a lodge remarks she does not want to be in her room because "the damned painting there is Dogs Playing Poker." There was a PC video game based on the paintings. On February 16, 2005, two of the paintings sold for US$590,400. http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/16/news/newsmakers/poker_dogs/ References - San Jose Mercury News, Feb 11, 2005; "A New York auction offers artistic treats for dog lovers"
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