Is Picasso The World’s Most Expensive Painting?

“Pablo Picasso’s Boy with a Pipe, painted in 1905 when he was 24, could become the world’s most expensive painting at an auction at Sotherby’s in New York. The painting is estimated to sell for $70m (£38m) at the auction in May, but could easily outstrip Van Gogh’s portrait of Dr Gachet, which had a before-commission price tag of $75m in 1990.”