THIS is the painting that has cost the Qatari royal family a record-breaking £158million.

[midnight]

Are we playing for money? ... Cezanne's Card Players

It smashes the previous record of £88.7million for a Jackson Pollock.

The oil-rich Qataris are said to have bought the 1890s painting from the estate of Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos, who died last year.

The Qatari Royals bought Harrods for £1.5billion in 2010. In August they bought London's 2012 Olympic Village for £557million.http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4108506/Cezanne-painting-priciest-art-ever.html


Painting can be seen at link...

[irisblue]

1. wow..okay...n/t

[whistler162]

2. I prefer the other one...

you know the one with the dogs playing cards instead.

[ornotna]

3. Cezanne shmezanne

If he could do this I'd be impressed.

The Velvet Elvis


Seriously, that's a bunch of money.

[baldguy]

4. I'd pay £158 million for that. It's nice.

I could hang it in my bathroom.

[dimbear]

5. Don't do that. The steam spoiled my Picassos. n/t

[jmowreader]

6. There are a hell of a lot better card-playing pictures than that one

Cezanne's "The Card Players"



Bought by the Qatari royals for $250 million-plus.

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's "A Bold Bluff"



Fulcrum Gallery has prints of this for $19.95.

[csziggy]

7. We used to have a really nice painting of a group of lizards playing cards

I always thought of it as a depiction of politicians.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I wish you had not posted this.

I am still broken hearted that they outbid me.

[JCMach1]

9. Well, it'd at least as good as the one with the dogs...

[emilyg]

10. Heehee -

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. Anyone else remember Osterreich's print shop?

we got their catalog in the mail.