"Other Big-Ticket Items" - Blog #3

Paul Cézanne,'Card Player'

Est: $15 million to $20 million

The watercolor, a work that was long assumed to be lost and has not been seen publicly since 1953, hits the block at Christie's Impressionist and modern evening sale May 1. The work, depicting a red-nosed man in a crumpled cap, was a study for versions of "The Card Players," one of which reportedly sold for at least $250 million recently, a sum that would break the record for the private sale of an artwork.