Dogs Playing Poker Original Painting
100 original hand painted dogs playing poker oil painting art on canvas.
Dogs playing poker original painting. The dogs playing poker series refers to the collective group of coolidge s dog paintings including his original 1894 painting the 16 oil paintings that were commissioned in 1903 by brown bigelow and an additional 1910 painting he did. All eighteen of these paintings feature humanized dogs. S p o n s o r e y q d f 8 r 6 i v 0. However only eleven of the paintings include dogs playing poker around a card table.
Dogs playing poker by cassius marcellus coolidge refers collectively to an 1894 painting a 1903 series of sixteen oil paintings commissioned by brown bigelow to advertise cigars and a 1910 painting. Or best offer c 73 07 shipping. These eleven pictures are the most well known pictures and are strongly associated with the home decoration of. It s not commonly known but dogs playing poker by cassius marcellus coolidge refers to not just one painting but 18 of them.
On april 1 2002 william hennessey the director of the chrysler museum of art in virginia released a press release claiming he was trying to acquire the series of oil on canvas paintings universally known as dogs playing poker 1903 1910. An original painting would sell for a lot of money. The press release turned out to be a prank apparently the idea of hanging such things in a museum was an art historian s idea of a hilarious joke. For example a pair of the paintings sold at auction for over 590 000 a.
All eighteen of these paintings feature comical humanized dogs. 57 dogs playing poker huge original painting oil on canvas by anna. Dogs playing poker cassius coolidge copy original oil paint. All eighteen paintings in the overall series feature anthropomorphized dogs but the eleven in which dogs are seated around a card table have become well known in the united states as examples of kitsch art in home decoration.
Before the sale it was estimated that the two rare paintings from cassius marcellus coolidge s 1903 series of dogs playing poker would fetch 30 000 to 50 000 said alan fausel senior vice. Depictions and reenactments of the series have. All the best dogs playing poker painting price 29 collected on this page. This painting of the two dogs cheating at poker is the most popular.
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