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The Most Expensive Painting

The current record price was paid for The Card Players by Paul Cézanne, which was sold for more than $250 million in 2011.
The buyer was royal family of
Qatar. And the seller was George Embiricos. The price was $ 267 million. Original price in million was $ 259 million.
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 and in the number of players depicted. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for The Card Players series.




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