Cézanne's watercolour Still Life with Green Melon set the record for a work on paper at an auction, when it sold for $25.5 million in 8 May 2007, far above its estimate of $18 million. A preparatory watercolour for The Card Players series previously thought lost for sixty years sold for $19.1 million on 1 May 2012 to an anonymous bidder.
Cézanne's watercolour Still Life with Green Melon set the record for a work on paper at an auction, when it sold for $255 million in 8 May 2007, far above its estimate of $18 million A preparatory watercolour for The Card Players series previously thought lost for sixty years sold for $191 million on 1 May 2012 to an anonymous bidder.