Dogs Playing Poker Painting Series. The trope became popular and helped to invent a specifically american kitsch art. His station and four aces.
Ten years later in 2015 the painting resold at the same auction for 658 000. All eighteen of these paintings feature humanized dogs. The series as a whole is known as dogs playing poker.
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4 4 out of 5 stars 49. The series includes the artist s original poker game 1894 painting along with 16 other oil paintings commissioned in 1903 by brown bigelow to advertise cigars and an additional 1910 painting. However only eleven of the paintings actually depict poker faced pups playing cards around a table. 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.
