Vincent Van Gogh (853-1890): Today, Van Gogh's work sells for unprecedented prices and is some of the most valuable and highly sought after in the world. His Portrait of Dr. Gachetsold for $82.5 million in 1990, making it one of the most expensive paintings ever sold. In his ime, however, Van Gogh was a failed, starving artist. He produced more than 2,000 works of art, but sold only two during his lifetime. Suffering with mental illness and further depressed by bis lack of success, Van Gogh committed suicide at the age of 37. Van Gogh's post-Impressionist style, filled with emotion, movement and vibrancy, was not popular during but would go on to influence decades of artists his life most highly regarded that follow and his works remain some of the paintings in modern art.