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The Card Players
Painting series by Paul Cézanne
For the Almanach painting, see The Card Players II.
| 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.
Zwei kartenspieler paul cezanne biography
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 2011 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]
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