Most Expensive (2nd) Work of Art - The Card Players - $275 million

Most Expensive (2nd) Work of Art - The Card Players - $275 million - The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. One version of The Card Players was sold in 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar for almost $300 million, making it the second most expensive work of art ever sold (after Interchange by Willem de Kooning).