Dogs-playing-poker paintings fetch $590,000

Everyone knows the dogs playing poker pictures. They are probably one of the best known pictures from the modern era, but what you probably didn't know is that they are from a series of 16 paintings (9 of which show dogs playing poker) that artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge was commissioned to create for a Minnesota-based advertising company in 1903. Well thats according to MSN anyway, and who knows how accurate they are. Anyway two of the paintings fetched almost $600K, pretty sweet I reckon. See here for the details and some pictures which show dogs playing poker. Oh god, they're dogs and they're playing poker. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo.