“The Card Players,” one of the most expensive paintings ever sold, was created by which artist?
Vincent van Gogh
Paul Cézanne
Pablo Picasso
Edvard Munch
The Card Players is a series of oil paintings created by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series; each varies in size, the number of players depicted, and the setting in which the card game unfolds. Each painting depicts Provençal peasants smoking pipes and playing cards. One version of The Card Players was sold in 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar for a price estimated at $250 million ($325.2 million today), making it the third most expensive work of art ever sold.
The correct answer is Paul Cézanne.