The Card Players,world most expensive painting done by Paul Cézanne

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work sold out for almost 250 million US dollars,

it was a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. 

there are five paintings in the series. 

The versions vary in size and in the number of players depicted. 

he did first time a "modern" painting (in this case from 1888) became the record holder, 

as opposed to the old master paintings which had always previously held it.