Sunday, July 14, 2013

Highest of High Art

The Card Players
Paul Cezanne
Oil on Canvas
1892/93

The world's most expensive painting ever sold is The Card Players by Paul Cezanne.
It sold in April 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar for $259 million.
It is one of several paintings Cezanne did of card players. The models for the paintings were local farmhands, some of whom worked on the Cézanne family estate.


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