The Card Players of 1892-93 is one in a series of five produced by the incredible Paul Cézanne throughout his career. The majority of these paintings are housed in world-renowned museum collections, such as the Musée D’Orsay in Paris and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Art lovers around the world learned in 2012 that this particular version was privately sold the previous year, in 2011, at a breathtaking price of over $250 million USD – in today’s money, that is about $269 million USD. At the time, it was the most expensive painting ever sold. While the aforementioned work has not been confirmed to be in the hands of the royal family of Qatar, this painting is confirmed to be in their possession.