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On February 15, 2005, the originals of ''A Bold Bluff'' and ''Waterloo'' were auctioned as a pair to an undisclosed buyer for ]590,400.<ref>"A New York auction offers artistic treats for dog lovers", ''San Jose Mercury News'' (Feb 11, 2005).</ref> The previous top price for a Coolidge was $74,000.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2005/02/16/news/newsmakers/poker_dogs/|publisher=]|title='Dogs Playing Poker' sell for $590K|access-date=September 11, 2006|date=February 16, 2005}}</ref> In 2015, ''Poker Game'' sold for $658,000, currently the highest price paid for a Coolidge. On February 15, 2005, the originals of ''A Bold Bluff'' and ''Waterloo'' were auctioned as a pair to an undisclosed buyer for ]590,400.<ref>"A New York auction offers artistic treats for dog lovers", ''San Jose Mercury News'' (Feb 11, 2005).</ref> The previous top price for a Coolidge was $74,000.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2005/02/16/news/newsmakers/poker_dogs/|publisher=]|title='Dogs Playing Poker' sell for $590K|access-date=September 11, 2006|date=February 16, 2005}}</ref> In 2015, ''Poker Game'' sold for $658,000, currently the highest price paid for a Coolidge.

==In popular culture==

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* In the TV sitcom '']'', Sam Malone likes the paintings (in particular one of ''Dogs Playing Blackjack''), while his lover, Diane Chambers, hates them. Sam says that he sees something new every time he looks at it.
* The cover of the 1981 album, '']'' by ], features ''A Friend in Need'' as one of the three pictures being moved.
* In the 1984 play '']'', a character complains that she doesn't want to be in her motel room because there is a "Damn picture on the wall of some dogs playin' poker."
* The animated television series '']'' has made several references to the paintings, such as in "]" (1993) when Homer is driven to screaming insanity simply by looking at the surrealness of the painting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dogsplayingpoker.org/stuff/simpsons.html|title=Dogs Playing Poker in the Simpsons&nbsp;— DogsPlayingPoker.org|website=www.dogsplayingpoker.org}}</ref>
* The music video for ]'s 1993 song, "]", depicts dogs playing craps while smoking cigars and wearing sunglasses.
* In the 1994 "School Daze" episode of '']'' Overton brings a print of ''A Bold Bluff'' into art class and comments on the "obviousness" of the bulldog's bluff.
* ''Dogs Playing Poker'' TV ads were aired during '']'' during the 1998 and 1999 NFL seasons.
* The 1998 season four episode "Sinking Ship" of the TV series '']'' spoofs the 1997 film '']''. As the characters are shown fleeing the sinking ship/broadcasting studio they dump famous artworks but hold on to a ''Dogs Playing Poker'', which a character claims is a "great picture".
* In the 1999 film '']'', Banning believes she finds a stolen ] painting in Crown's house. On expert examination it turns out to be a fake painted over a copy of ''Poker Sympathy'', a ''Dogs Playing Poker'' canvas.
* In a 2000 episode of the TV series '']'', "]", ''Dogs Playing Poker'' is parodied by the characters taking the places of the dogs.
* In an episode of '']'', a young ]'s artistic frustration is demonstrated by his producing a ''DPP'' painting.
* In an episode of ], art expert and main character Neal Caffrey jokes about hanging a ''DPP'' on a wall.
* In an episode of '']'', Courage goes into a ''DPP'' painting and picks up an untouched card hand. He laughs and puts it down, which shocks the other dogs upon seeing that the hand is a ]. Courage is then kicked out of the painting by one of the dogs.
* In the 2005 '']'' episode "]", London tells Maddie that she saw a painting of dogs playing poker, and that she wants Maddie to throw her dog a poker-themed party. When Maddie tells her the dogs weren't really playing poker, London replies, "If they weren't playing poker, then how did the dalmatian win all the money?"
* In the 2006 '']'' episode "]", ] is discovered playing poker with dogs. In the episode "]", Stewie comments on the ''Dogs Playing Poker'' paintings hanging on a wall, and suggests that since Jesus is alone in one of the other paintings, the dogs should invite him to their card game.
* In the 2006 film '']'', there is a scene with some dogs from the farm playing poker while a mouse paints ''A Friend in Need'' while watching them.
* In the 2009 film '']'', a recreation of the series with the dogs from the movie is briefly shown.
* In the TV series '']'', Eric is cleaning out the garage when he finds one of the ''Dogs Playing Poker'' paintings, and shows his parents.
* In the 2016 film, '']'', the paintings are discussed by the lead characters. Later, a copy of ''A Friend in Need'' is used as a cover to hide a ] painting.
* In the 2020 '']'' season seven episode "Passport and a Gun", Jim Sullivan rewards young Ray for his successful debut as a debt collector with a valued and framed copy of ''A Friend in Need''.
* In the 2022 '']'' made a series of Poker Masterclasses called Pokerdogs. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bodog.com/pokerdogs|title='Pokerdogs'|website=Bodog|date=30 June 2022|language=pt|access-date=2023-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203192253/https://www.bodog.com/pokerdogs|archive-date=2023-02-03}}</ref>
* In the 2022 film '']'', during the montage showing where Puss loses eight of his nine lives, he is shown cheating in a card game with some dogs playing poker, which gets him presumably mauled by the angry pack.


==See also== ==See also==

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Set of paintings by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge

Poker Game, oil on canvas, 1894

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. 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.

Depictions and reenactments of the series have appeared in many films, television shows, theater productions, and other popular culture art forms. Critic Annette Ferrara has described Dogs Playing Poker as "indelibly burned into ... the American collective-schlock subconscious ... through incessant reproduction on all manner of pop ephemera".

The first painting, Coolidge's 1894 Poker Game, sold for $658,000 at a 2015 auction.

Coolidge paintings

Pinched with Four Aces (1903)
A Friend in Need (1903)
Poker Sympathy (1903)
Sitting up with a Sick Friend (c. 1905)
A Waterloo, 1906

The title of Coolidge's original 1894 painting is Poker Game.

The titles in the Brown & Bigelow series are:

  • A Bachelor's Dog – reading the mail
  • A Bold Bluff  – poker (originally titled Judge St. Bernard Stands Pat on Nothing)
  • Breach of Promise Suit – testifying in court
  • A Friend in Need (1903) – poker, cheating
  • Pinched with Four Aces (1903) – poker
  • New Year's Eve in Dogville – ballroom dancing
  • One to Tie Two to Win – baseball
  • Pinched with Four Aces – poker, illegal gambling
  • Poker Sympathy (1903) – poker
  • Post Mortem – poker, camaraderie
  • The Reunion – smoking and drinking, camaraderie
  • Riding the Goat – Masonic initiation
  • Sitting up with a Sick Friend (1905) – poker, gender relations
  • Stranger in Camp – poker, camping
  • Ten Miles to a Garage – travel, car trouble, teamwork
  • A Waterloo (1906) – poker (originally titled Judge St. Bernard Wins on a Bluff)

These were followed in 1910 by a similar painting, Looks Like Four of a Kind. Other Coolidge paintings featuring anthropomorphized dogs include Kelly Pool, which shows dogs playing kelly pool.

Some of the compositions in the series are modeled on paintings of human card-players by such artists as Caravaggio, Georges de La Tour, and Paul Cézanne.

On February 15, 2005, the originals of A Bold Bluff and Waterloo were auctioned as a pair to an undisclosed buyer for US $590,400. The previous top price for a Coolidge was $74,000. In 2015, Poker Game sold for $658,000, currently the highest price paid for a Coolidge.

See also

References

  1. "Dogs Playing Poker". Ooo Woo – Complete Dog Resource. 2008. Archived from the original on April 11, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2006.
  2. Ferrara, Annette (April 2008). "Lucky Dog!". Ten by Ten Magazine. Chicago: Tenfold Media. Archived from the original on March 27, 2008. Retrieved September 1, 2006.
  3. "That Dogs Playing Poker Painting Just Sold for Over $650,000". GQ.
  4. ^ McManus, James. "Play It Close to the Muzzle and Paws on the Table", The New York Times (December 3, 2005).
  5. "A New York auction offers artistic treats for dog lovers", San Jose Mercury News (Feb 11, 2005).
  6. "'Dogs Playing Poker' sell for $590K". CNN Money. February 16, 2005. Retrieved September 11, 2006.

Further reading

  • Harris, Maria Ochoa. "It's A Dog's World, According to Coolidge", A Friendly Game of Poker (Chicago Review Press, 2003).

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