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Is this worth $600,000?
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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.
The winning bid set a new auction record for Coolidge, whose previous top sale was $74,000, said Alan Fausel, director of paintings at Doyle New York, which handled Tuesday's sale.
The winning bidder was a private collector from New York.
Doyle had estimated that the two paintings would bring in between $30,000 and $50,000.
The sale was part of Doyle's annual "Dogs in Art" auction, which coincides with the Westminster Kennel Club dog show.
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press.
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Because it was in Entrapment, yes.
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waky waky!
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If I could spend 600,000 just like that, why not?
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I certainly don't think so, but you know what they say about one person's junk...
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Only if it comes with licensing rights - i.e., everybody in the world who has a copy of that painting has to pay you $$$.
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Originally posted by malvolio:
Only if it comes with licensing rights - i.e., everybody in the world who has a copy of that painting has to pay you $$$.
The artist died in 1934; that's more than 70 years ago, so there's no copyright on the pictures any more.
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When I worked at an art store years ago, LOTS of people wanted that print. We'd sell something like 20 or 30 a month. $600k is cheap for the original.
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Hey, I have that picture on my checks!
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It is to somebody; not me.
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Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
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Those paintings look like the same paintings that I see on the side of the road all the time.
Inevitably there is an old Ford van and they have spread those cheap paintings out everywhere and there is a sign that says, "$25 Your Choice."
Cheesy.
P.S., They're usually on black velvet, also.
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Originally posted by AssassyN:
Because it was in Entrapment, yes.
Oh, there was art in "Entrapment"? I was too busy backing up the DVD to watch the ass shot.
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I like poker and I like dogs. If I were rich and had $600,000 burning a hole in my pocket, then yes, it would be worth it.
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Yep. It'll fetch more when they sell it again in a couple of years. Art is a good investment, especially for a work that popular.
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I'd get Dual 30 inchers, a Dual 2.5, some Xserves... a 17 inch PB... and go to lunch with the rest... and then put a digital copy as my desktop pic 
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Would I spend that much? Maybe if money wasn't a real concern for me.
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