«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

In an extraordinary press release, the art data company Artprice has lifted the lid on searches of art prices carried out by Qatar – currently considered to be the biggest buyer in the art market. The Gulf state is reliably thought to have given the highest price ever for a work of art: $250m for Cézanne’s “The Card Players”, last year.

-Financial Times

 October 5 2012