Cezanne - $ 250 million

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Paul Cezanne painting "Card Players", written about 1895, for $ 250 million acquired royal family of Qatar. Thus the picture by Cezanne became an expensive piece of art ever sold at the
public or private auction. About the biggest deal in the art market told the magazine Vanity Fair. The author of Alexander
Pierce, a former editor of The Observer, wrote that the information on the cost of painting and the customer it has received from several people. According to Pierce, the former owner of the painting - a Greek billionaire George Embirikos - planned to sell it in the winter of 2011, shortly before his death. In the painting was originally claimed by two buyers - art dealer and gallerist William Akvavella Larry Gagosian, who were willing to pay about $ 220 million. However, the royal family of Qatar, in the end offered more. In total, the series "Players Card" Cezanne wrote five works (1890-1895), four of them are kept in museums - the Museum d'Orsay, the Metropolitan Museum, Barnes Foundation, and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Only one work is in private hands, but the publication notes that a fifth, the darkest, a variant of "Players" can finally be in a museum. In 2010, Qatar opened the Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Qatar National Museum, whose collections are replenished.