For $250 million....

Qatar Purchases Cézanne’s The Card Playersfor More Than $250 Million, Highest Price Ever for a Work of Art

With this landmark score, the tiny, oil-rich nation joins a massively exclusive club: only five Card Players exist, and the other four are in world-class collections such as the Musée d’Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The purchase is just the latest bid in Qatar’s effort to become an international intellectual hub.

What would you do with $250 million?

1 Cezanne


10 decent sized mansions in the Hamptons

100 upper-middle class family homes in Beijing

1000 Ferrari 458 Italia Coupes in Rome


10,000 Ducati 1199S motorcycles in Paris

100,000 complete high school educations including accommodation, 
food and healthcare in Lhasa, Tibet

5,000,000 milking goats in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

50,000,000 egg-laying chickens in Dhaka, Bangladesh