A painting by Pablo Picasso will be raffled off in a charity lottery for a donation of €100
The Guardian reports this.
The number of tickets will be limited to 120,000, so if they sell out, €12 million could be raised. Of this sum, €1 million will go to Opera Gallery — the company that owns the painting. The remainder will go to the Alzheimer’s Research Fund, which operates at one of Paris’s leading public hospitals.
‘Woman’s Head’ will be exhibited at Christie’s auction house in Paris on 13 April, and the draw will take place tomorrow, 14 April.
The organisers say that the two previous lotteries featuring Picasso’s works raised over €10 million for cultural projects in Lebanon and water supply and hygiene programmes in Africa.
In the first “1 Picasso for €100” lottery in 2013, a fire protection systems technician from Pennsylvania won the painting “Man in the Opera Hat”, which the artist created in 1914 during his Cubist period.
A second work by Picasso — the oil still life ‘Nature Morte’ — was raffled off in 2020. It was won by an accountant from Italy, who had been given the ticket by her son for Christmas. This painting, created in 1921, was acquired for the lottery from billionaire collector David Nahmad. In an interview, he noted that Picasso would probably have approved of such an idea.
