This is what the most expensive painting ever sold at auction looks like:

In this photo released by Christie's Auction House in New York, 'Nude Green Leaves, and Bust,' a 193
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Nude Green Leaves, and Bust. Picasso painted it in one day. (AP Photo/Christie's, New York)

In this photo released by Christie's Auction House in New York, 'Nude Green Leaves, and Bust,' a 193

Nude Green Leaves, and Bust. Picasso painted it in one day. (AP Photo/Christie's, New York)

As NPR's Neda Ulaby says, the $106.5 million that an unidentified buyer paid last night for Pablo Picasso's 1932 work Nude Green Leaves, and Bust means that somebody out there isn't feeling the pinch of hard economic times:

The previous record for art sold at auction, the Associated Press says, was $104.3 million for a sculpture — Walking Man 1 — by Alberto Giacometti.

We wonder: