The Card Players

The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the setting in which the game takes place. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for The Card Players series. One version of The Card Players was sold in 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar for a price estimated at $250 million. It was thought to be sold to the Davis family out of Florida in the United States for an estimated US$225 million. ($284.1 million today) and possibly as high as $300 million ($341 million today), either price signifying a new mark for highest ever price for a painting, not surpassed until November 2017.