THE CARD PLAYERS | PAUL CÉZANNE | (1892/93) | SOLD FOR C.$250M (€212M)

Painted during Cézanne’s final period in the early 1890s, The Card Players is a series of oil paintings produced – varying in size, settings, and number of players included within the painting, the series is composed of five paintings and a number of drawings and studies carried out in preperation for the full-scale series. One version of this expensive piece of art, The Card Players, sold on auction for around $250m to the Royal Family of Qatar, making it the 3rd most expensive painting ever sold at auction as of 2021 – 2022. As a post-impressionist, Cezanne and his paintings were particularly sought after so the selling price really goes as no surprise- the purchase was carried out as part of Qatar’s effort to establish itself as part as the international intellectual hub, something that the purchase of quality pieces of art would allow it to do.