The Card Players Canvas Print

About the Product

Artist: Paul Cézanne

Year: 1893

Original Medium: Oil on Canvas

Original Size:38" × 51"

Claim to fame: Most expensive artwork ever sold.

Just one in a series of 5 similar works, this version of Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players, is the most expensive painting ever sold.

The series of 5 is considered to be a cornerstone of Cézanne's work during the early-to-mid 1890s period, as well as a "prelude" to his final years, when he painted some of his most acclaimed work.

Each of the 5 painting depicts Provençal peasants immersed in smoking their pipes and playing cards. The subjects, all male, are displayed as studious within their card playing, eyes cast downward, intent on the game at hand. Cézanne adapted a motif from 17th-century Dutch and French genre painting which often depicted card games with rowdy, drunken gamblers in taverns, replacing them instead with stone-faced tradesmen in a more simplified setting. Whereas previous paintings of the genre had illustrated heightened moments of drama, Cézanne's portraits have been noted for their lack of drama, narrative, and conventional characterization. Other than an unused wine bottle in the two-player versions, there is an absence of drink and money, which were prominent fixtures of the 17th century genre. A painting hung in an Aix-en-Provence museum, near the artist's home, by one of the Le Nain brothers that depicts card players is widely believed to have been an inspiration for the works by Cézanne.

This version now resides in the private collection of Royal Family of Qatar who paid over $250 million in 2011.

Canvas Print Size: 24 inch x 17 inch

Why choose us?

• Archival grade canvas
• Giclee printing method - used by artists and galleries
• Protective finish - the colours are guaranteed not to fade over 75 years
• Hand-stretched and inspected to ensure the highest standards and attention to detail
• The print is framed and ready to hang out of the box
• Everything included, even the nail

About the Maker

We love printing photos on canvas. But even before we print, our design team works with each of our customers personally till the picture's perfect. Once you are satisfied with the digital proof, the photos are then printed on archival grade canvas using the giclee printing method that's used by artists and galleries. Each print is given a protective finish to ensure that the colours don't fade over decades. The canvas prints are then hand-stretched, framed and inspected to ensure the highest standards and attention to detail.