Painting Of Dogs Playing Poker Sells For $658KC.M. Coolidge's Work Goes For Top Dollar In Auction |
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Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s famous 1894 painting of some dogs playing poker was sold this month to an unnamed buyer for a whopping $658,000.
Art auctioneers Sotheby’s had the estimated value between $400,000 and $600,000, so someone apparently was willing to overspend on the piece.
The piece is just one of a series of sixteen oil paintings commissioned by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars, nine of which depicted dogs playing poker. Coolidge was able to get up to $10,000 for his work back in the day.
The paintings first became a mainstream hit in the 1970s, according to a report from mentalfloss.com. One art critic remarked: “These signature works, for better or worse, are indelibly burned into the subconscious slide library of even the most un-art historically inclined person through their incessant reproduction on all manner of pop ephemera: calendars, t-shirts, coffee mugs, the occasional advertisement.”
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