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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Two “Dogs Playing Poker” paintings cleaned house at Doyle New York’s annual Dogs in Art Auction, fetching a staggering $590,400, the auction house said.

It was estimated that the two rare paintings from Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s 1903 series of dogs playing poker would fetch $30,000-$50,000, Doyle said in a statement after Tuesday’s sale. The auction house said that, after intense bidding, “A Bold Bluff” and “Waterloo: Two” sold to a private collector from New York City.

“The (paintings’) sequential narrative follows the same ‘players’ in the course of a hand of poker,” said an auction note from Doyle. “In the first, our main character, the St. Bernard, holds a weak hand as the rest of the crew maintains their best poker faces. In the following scene, we see the St. Bernard raking in the large pot, much to the very obvious dismay of his fellow players.”

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