Paul Cezanne's Card Players sold for a record $250 million

Paul Cezanne's Card Players has been sold for $250 million (€191.6 million). The painting, one in a series of five works depicting French peasants playing cards, was bought by the Gulf  kingdom of Qatar

The deal sets the highest price ever paid for a work of art and upends the modern art market.The previous record was said to be $140 million  paid for a Jackson Pollock in 2006.

There are four other Cézanne Card Players in the series; and they are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée d’Orsay, the Courtauld, and the Barnes Foundation.

It is one in a series of five depictions of Provencal peasants immersed in their game. They are considered some of the French post-Impressionist’s most important works and often described as "human still life".