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Wyeth Sets Record with Hickok Oil

by | Oct 1, 2007 | Art, Guns and Culture

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The most famous Poker hand of all time, Aces and Eights, might have won the pot, had the gambler not gotten shot in the back of the head. Given the popular lore surrounding this legendary “Dead Man’s Hand,” held by Wild Bill Hickok, it should be no huge surprise that an artist record at auction was set for an N.C. Wyeth painting showing Hickok brandishing his pistol at the card table. On July 28, Wyeth’s 1916 oil, Hickok at Cards, sold for a record-breaking $2 million at the Coeur d


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