The Card Players

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The Card Players is a renowned series of oil paintings by French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne depicting peasants absorbed in a quiet game of cards.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oil painting series
painting series
artHistoricalSignificance key work in development of modern art
artist Paul Cézanne
artMarketNotability includes one of the most expensive paintings ever sold
cataloguedAs series of five major canvases
colorCharacteristic muted earthy palette
compositionFeature figures arranged in profile and three-quarter views
table as central structural element
countryOfOrigin France
creator Paul Cézanne
culturalContext Provençal peasant life
depicts card game
peasants playing cards
genre genre painting
hasInfluenced 20th-century modernist composition
Cubism
surface form: Cubist painters
hasPart The Card Players self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Card Players (Barnes Foundation version)

The Card Players self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Card Players (Courtauld Gallery version)

The Card Players self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Card Players (Metropolitan Museum of Art version)

The Card Players self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Card Players (Musée d'Orsay version)

The Card Players self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Card Players (private collection version)
hasVersionCount multiple compositions with varying numbers of players
inception 1890s
influencedBy Gustave Courbet
Édouard Manet
languageOfWork none
locationOfCreation Aix-en-Provence
mainSubject card players
peasants
medium oil paint
movement Post-Impressionism
notableWorkOf Paul Cézanne
numberOfWorks 5
partOf late work of Paul Cézanne
periodOfCreation 1890–1895
portrays absence of overt drama
quiet concentration
setting rural interior
style structured composition and simplified forms
support canvas
technique carefully built-up brushstrokes
emphasis on underlying geometric forms
theme everyday life
human concentration
social interaction

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Post-Impressionism hasKeyWork The Card Players
Musée d'Orsay notableWorkHeld The Card Players
this entity surface form: The Card Players (Cézanne version)
Paul Cézanne notableWork The Card Players
The Card Players hasPart The Card Players self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Card Players (Barnes Foundation version)
The Card Players hasPart The Card Players self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Card Players (Musée d'Orsay version)
The Card Players hasPart The Card Players self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Card Players (Courtauld Gallery version)
The Card Players hasPart The Card Players self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Card Players (Metropolitan Museum of Art version)
The Card Players hasPart The Card Players self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Card Players (private collection version)
Fernand Léger notableWork The Card Players
The Bathers relatedWork The Card Players
Courtauld Gallery notableWorkInCollection The Card Players
this entity surface form: The Card Players (Cézanne version)
Hortense Fiquet spouseNotableWork The Card Players