A Picasso was sold for $104.2 million making it the world's most expensive painting ever! The previous record was held by a Van Gogh painting "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" which sold for $82.5 million in 1990. Which brings me to an interesting fact - Did you know that Van Gogh sold a grand total of ONE painting in his lifetime? He was terribly underrated as an artist in his lifetime and interest in his work picked up only about a decade after he commited suicide. Imagine, about 900 paintings, and only one sold!