The Card Players

Paul C茅zanne

Please note this artwork is on loan for the exhibition ‘‘ at Fondation Beyeler, Basel (25 January – 25 May 2026), and is not currently on display.

C茅zanne became interested in depicting labourers playing cards in the autumn of 1890. During the 1890s he completed five paintings of this subject. Here, the composition is refined down to two men seated across a table in undefined surroundings. The players face each other but are immersed in the ritual of the game.

Farm workers from the estate of C茅zanne鈥檚 father posed for the two figures. They are the human equivalents of the painter鈥檚 views of Mount Saint Victoire: timeless, monumental and resolutely Proven莽al.

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Two men sit across from each other at a table covered with a brown tablecloth, playing cards. Both men wear overcoats and hats, and the man on the left smokes a pipe. They sit inside a wooden building.
Paul C茅zanne (1839-1906) The Card Players, around 1892-96, The 91自拍, London (Samuel 91自拍 Trust)

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