Good job. There are actually 5 paintings in the "Card Players" series. The royal family just bought one out of the series.. See Wikipedia. We need to keep alert for any transactions regarding the others although I suspect one or more are held in museum collections.
They also paid $300 million for a Gauguin painting. No cards in that one. They have also bought or commissioned massive steel sculptures from Richard Serra, an abstract painting from Mark Rothko, massive bronze sculptures from Damien Hirst and others. They really like massive scultpturees. They have a massive spider, an octopus, a thing that look like a set of monkeybars, one dedicated to the sport of handball. They also got I. M. Pei out of retirement to design their museum of Islamic art. They are all over the map.
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Pizzalawyer ago
Good job. There are actually 5 paintings in the "Card Players" series. The royal family just bought one out of the series.. See Wikipedia. We need to keep alert for any transactions regarding the others although I suspect one or more are held in museum collections.
KnightsofHubris ago
Cards has nothing to do with Qatar's art purchases. I just wrote a massive bit about this. https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1790133/8767694
They also paid $300 million for a Gauguin painting. No cards in that one. They have also bought or commissioned massive steel sculptures from Richard Serra, an abstract painting from Mark Rothko, massive bronze sculptures from Damien Hirst and others. They really like massive scultpturees. They have a massive spider, an octopus, a thing that look like a set of monkeybars, one dedicated to the sport of handball. They also got I. M. Pei out of retirement to design their museum of Islamic art. They are all over the map.
http://www.qm.org.qa/en/area/public-art