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PARIS \u2014 In a few hours, one lucky winner will find themselves the owner of a Pablo Picasso painting<\/a> for less than $120.<\/p>\n

A raffle in France is offering the chance to win a $1 million portrait by the Spanish artist for the price of a 100-euro ticket ($117), with proceeds going to\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s\u00a0research<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The draw takes place later Tuesday at Christie\u2019s auction house in Paris.<\/p>\n

Peri Cochin, co-founder of the \u201c1 Picasso for 100 euros,\u201d poses next to \u201cHead of a Woman\u201d by Pablo Picasso, in Paris on April 10, 2026, ahead of a lottery in which the painting is being raffled off to raise money for Alzheimer\u2019s research. AP<\/p>\n

People look at Picasso\u2019s \u201cHead of a Woman\u201d on April 10, 2026, at Christie\u2019s auction house in Paris. AP<\/p>\n

The third iteration of the \u201c1 Picasso for 100 euros\u201d lottery is for Picasso\u2019s \u201cHead of a Woman,\u201d with proceeds going to\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s\u00a0research.<\/p>\n

The gouache on paper was painted by Picasso<\/a> in 1941.<\/p>\n

The first such raffle\u00a0in 2013<\/a>\u00a0saw\u00a0a Pennsylvania man who worked at a fire-sprinkler business<\/a>\u00a0win \u201cMan in the Opera Hat,\u201d which the Spanish master painted in 1914 during his Cubist period.<\/p>\n

The gouache on paper was painted by Picasso in 1941. AP<\/p>\n

The oil-on-canvas \u201cStill Life\u201d was raffled off in 2020 and made a very happy mom of Claudia Borgogno, an accountant in Italy whose son\u00a0bought her the ticket<\/a>\u00a0as a Christmas present.<\/p>\n

Painted in 1921, that painting was purchased for the raffle from billionaire art collector David Nahmad, who argued in\u00a0an Associated Press interview<\/a>\u00a0that Picasso would have approved of raffling his work. Picasso\u00a0died in 1973<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Alzheimer Research Foundation, the charity raffle\u2019s organizer, is based in one of Paris\u2019 leading public hospitals and says it has become France\u2019s leading private financier of Alzheimer-related medical research since its founding in 2004.<\/p>\n

The organizers\u2019 online sales platform said the number of tickets for Tuesday\u2019s draw has been capped at 120,000, meaning it could net 12 million euros ($14 million) if they\u2019re all sold.<\/p>\n

Of that, 1 million euros will be paid to the Opera Gallery, an international art dealership that owns the painting.<\/p>\n

Organizers said the two previous Picasso raffles raised a total of more than 10 million euros for cultural work in Lebanon and water and hygiene programs in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014 In a few hours, one lucky winner will find themselves the owner of a Pablo Picasso…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5091,2115,2948,5,5129,4481,3604,30,5130,90],"class_list":{"0":"post-6047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-alzheimers-disease","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-auctions","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-money","13":"tag-pablo-picasso","14":"tag-painting","15":"tag-paris","16":"tag-research","17":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}