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Qatar buys Cézanne’s The Card Players for more than $250m - the highest price ever paid for work of art
more, with pictures and a "five most expensive paintings" sidebar, at Daily Mail link aboveQatar has purchased a Paul Cézanne painting, The Card Players, for more than $250 million (£158.4 million).
The deal, for the post-impressionist masterpiece, sets the highest price ever paid for a work of art.
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The sale of the representation of two Aix-en-Provence peasants in a card game more than doubles the current auction record for a work of art.
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Yes, '$250 million is a fortune,' fine arts appraiser Victor Wiener told Vanity Fair.
'But you take any art-history course and a 'Card Players' is likely in it. It's a major, major image.'
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