The Card Players

*The Card Players*
The Card Players
Artist	Paul Cézanne
Year	1894–95
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	47.5 cm × 57 cm (18.7 in × 22 in)
Location	Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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 2000s to the Royal Family of Qatar for a price estimated at $250 million ($338.6 million today), signifying a new mark for highest ever price for a painting, not surpassed until November 2017.^[1]

^ Peers, Alexandra (January 2012). "Qatar Purchases Cézanne's The Card Players for More Than $250 Million, Highest Price Ever for a Work of Art". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 3 February 2012.

[VanityFair-1] Peers, Alexandra (January 2012). "Qatar Purchases Cézanne's The Card Players for More Than $250 Million, Highest Price Ever for a Work of Art". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 3 February 2012.

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