Most expensive painting by Cezanne

The Paul Cézanne painting The Card Players was sold to the royal family of Qatar, for $250 million (£158,339,000), in 2011. This painting if one of five in a series by famed French post-Impressionist, Paul Cézanne painted in the early 1890s. The other four are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée d’Orsay, the Courtauld, and the Barnes Foundation. The oil painting depicts a pair of Aix-en-Provence farmhands engaged in a game of cards. Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos previously owned the painting, but the full details of the purchase have not been disclosed.