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­Paul Cezanne breaks art market record

Published: 05 February, 2012, 16:40


The Card Players by Paul Cezanne becomes the most expensive artwork on the market

Thanks to oil-rich Qatar, another record has been set on the art market. Its royal family has bought a painting by Paul Cezanne for a whopping $250 million, making it the most expensive artwork ever sold.

 
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re Maya Rodina February 06, 2012, 02:25 quote
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Russia is the largest drug dealer on the planet they are sitting on Trillions of dollars of illegal American money.  What are they going to say.   What are they going to criticise.  They sell drugs to everyone else on the sly and tell their own people to not do drugs.  Just how Russia works kid. 

joseph walker February 06, 2012, 16:33 quote
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Not worth anything to Paul Cezanne,he is  dead,and worth nothing to the owners when thier die.Anyway Vanity ,all is vanity for the rich.Their love vanity,All amounts to emptiness and nothing.Just add it to their trophies of emptyness and hollow charteristics.If thier gave 250 million to the poor,then thats  worth more than paintings.Thats worth more .Then our prats on the planet media ,broadcasters can have something worthwhile to write or voice.

Rasheed February 12, 2012, 18:10 quote
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Near worthless. Only has the value which people attach to it; complete idiocy.

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