Most Expensive Painting?

The Financial Times art extra has a short paragraph on the possible private sale of Cezanne painting from a series of five called the Card Players.  The selling price is rumored to be an amazing $250 million. The buyer is currently unknown.  It will be very interesting to see how this story develops and if in fact the rumored purchase figure is correct.

The FT reports

Evidence gathers as to the sale of Cézanne's "The Card Players" (1892-93) which belonged to the late George Embiricos. The last of a series of five paintings showing Provençal peasants immersed in a card game, it seems indeed to have been sold by the Greek shipping magnate before his death earlier this year, as initially revealed in this column. The price, given as a rumour by the insider newsletter Baerfaxt, was a whopping $250m, and I hear it might even have been higher. If so, this is by far the highest price ever paid for a work of art. Who bought it? For the moment, this remains a mystery.