A painting of two men playing cards was purchased by the nation of Qatar for $250 million -- which, according to an article in Vanity Fair, is "the highest price ever paid for a work of art" and "more than doubles the current auction record for a work of art."
The painting, by post-impressionist Paul Cézanne, is known as The Card Players, and it is one of five Card Players known to exist. (Here's another, with three men playing cards.) I was not able to find any source indicating what card game is being played in the paintings. But for $250 million, Qatar could have bought 6,946,374 copies of Dominion from Funagain Games.
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