Artwork at the bridge club

ARTWORK AT THE CLUB

“Women playing cards” by George Marks

“Four men playing cards” by an unnamed photographer.

“Bridge Party” by George Hughes was the cover of the Saturday Evening Post magazine, on November 28, 1953. This was a weekly American magazine.

For information about George Hughes see  click here  and also  click here

“Players and Spectators Wear Elegant Creations by Jean Patou, Paul Poiret and Doucet” by an unnamed artist.

Jean Patou, Paul Poiret and Doucet were all French fashion designers.

For information about Jean Patou  click here

For information about Paul Poiret click here

For information about Jacques Doucet   click here

This painting, by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne , 1890-92,  called  “The Card Players”,  is one in a series of five oil paintings each called “The Card Players” . One version of “The Card Players” was sold in 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar for a price variously estimated at between $250 million and $300 million, making it the most expensive work of art.

For information about this series of paintings see  click here

“The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds”  by Georges de la Tour,   1635

For information about Georges de la Tour see  click here

On a concrete block wall, seen from inside the club rooms, is a painting of a hand of cards. Created by Mary Buckland.  The cards are: click here 

For the article in NZBridge magazine April  2014  click here  

For information about the cards in this hand  click here