Post by wittzo on Apr 9, 2005 10:39:48 GMT -6
www.NewsoftheWeird.com Digest #895, by Chuck Shepherd, April 3, 2005
* The mother of all of those recreation-room paintings of dogs
playing poker is the series of nine originals by Cassius Marcellus
Coolidge in 1903, sponsored by a Minnesota advertising company,
and in February, two of those masterpieces were sold by the Doyle
New York auction house for a total of $590,400. Explaining the
high price, Doyle's director of paintings pointed out that the
auction coincided with both New York's Westminster Dog Show
and the recent popularity of televised poker.
* The mother of all of those recreation-room paintings of dogs
playing poker is the series of nine originals by Cassius Marcellus
Coolidge in 1903, sponsored by a Minnesota advertising company,
and in February, two of those masterpieces were sold by the Doyle
New York auction house for a total of $590,400. Explaining the
high price, Doyle's director of paintings pointed out that the
auction coincided with both New York's Westminster Dog Show
and the recent popularity of televised poker.