Qatar Purchases Cézanne’s The Card Players for More Than $250 Million -- posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

Qatar Purchases Cézanne’s The Card Players for More Than $250 Million,
Highest Price Ever for a Work of Art

With this landmark score, the tiny, oil-rich nation joins a massively exclusive club: only five Card Players exist, and the other four are in world-class collections such as the Musee d'Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  The purchase is just the latest bid in Qatar's effort to become an international intellectual hub... GL

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