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February 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Embiricos had rarely allowed the painting to be leant out, and offers put
in by two of the world’s top art dealers, Larry Gagosian and William
Acquavella, had climbed to £139 million before the Qatari royal family
stepped in.
Nicolai Iljine, an art consultant for the Guggenheim, said: “There is not much
great art left on the market and there is a lot of competition to get it.”
Cézanne chose two stony-faced figures from his family’s estate outside
Aix-en-Provence for the piece: gardener Paulin Paulet and farm hand Père
Alexandre.
“Today everything is changing, but not for me,” he said of the work. “I live
in my hometown, and I rediscover the past in the faces of people my age.”
Qatar was ranked the world’s biggest contemporary art buyer last year by The
Art Newspaper, with Sheikha Al Mayassa, the Emir’s 28-year-old daughter, a
driving force behind the attempt to turn the oil-rich desert state into a
cultural centre to rival Paris and New York.
Recent acquisitions are known to include Mark Rothko’s White Center (Yellow,
Pink and Lavender on Rose) and Damien Hirst’s pill cabinet Lullaby Spring.
The Qatar National Museum is a likely new home for The Card Players.
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