CAN YOU NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PAINTINGS, WONDER WHICH IS THE ORIGINAL.
The Qatari royal family has paid £158m ($250m) for Paul Cezanne’s The Card Players painting, making it the highest sum ever paid for an art work, according to media reports.
The sale beats the previous record of £88.7m paid for Jackson Pollock’s No 5, 1948 in 2006, the UK's Telegraph reported.
Although the Qatari royals bought the piece last year from Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos, the amount they paid was disclosed in an article in Vanity Fair magazine, the paper said.
The details emerged as VIP collectors, curators and dealers head to Qatar for the opening of an exhibition by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.
Qatar is pitching itself as a new destination in the art world as it is hosting exhibits by Richard Serra, Louise Bourgeois and will host an international art forum in March, the paper said.
The Art Newspaper ranked Qatar as the world’s biggest art buyer last year citing the king’s daughter, Sheikha Al Mayassa, as a driving force behind the attempt to "turn the oil-rich desert state into a cultural centre to rival Paris and New York".
She is the chairwoman of the Qatar Museums Authority, an organisation overseeing the country’s ambitious cultural initiatives.
In June 2011, Edward Dolman quit his job as chairman of Christie’s International to join the organization’s board.
Qatar has in the recent past bought Mark Rothko’s White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) and Damien Hirst’s pill cabinet Lullaby Spring.
Cezanne’s other four pieces from the series, created around the 1890s, are held by Musée d’Orsay in Paris, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Courtauld Institute in London and the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
Nicolai Iljine, an art consultant for the Guggenheim, is quoted by The Telegraph as saying: “There is not much great art left on the market and there is a lot of competition to get it.”
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