An art-loving engineer from Paris was the lucky winner of an original Picasso painting worth over a million euros at a charity raffle in Paris on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Ari Hodara, 58, who only bought his ticket at the weekend, was picked at a ceremony in Paris that was livestreamed from auction house Christie’s, with the funds raised from the event to be donated to research into Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n
A total of 120,000 tickets were sold at 100 euros ($118) apiece, with a portrait of Dora Maar, one of Picasso’s muses, up for grabs.<\/p>\n
Titled “T\u00eate de femme” (“Woman’s head”), the inky grey and blue gouache work was painted in 1941 and was purchased from a private art dealership, Opera Gallery.<\/p>\n
“How do I know this isn’t a prank?” Hodara asked when called from the auction house after being picked from a list of ticket-buyers in 52 countries.<\/p>\n
Organisers, led by French journalist Peri Cochin with backing from the painter’s family and foundation, put on two similar raffles of the Spanish master’s work in 2013 and 2020.<\/p>\n
A 25-year-old American from Pennsylvania won the first, while an accountant from Ventimiglia in northwest Italy claimed the second after being given a ticket as a Christmas present by her son.<\/p>\n
The 12 million euros raised will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Research Foundation.<\/p>\n
“The funding for research is ridiculous,” head of the foundation, Olivier de Ladoucette, said Tuesday. “In our developed societies, we still haven\u2019t understood that this is a major public health issue and that absolutely everyone needs to get involved.<\/p>\n
“This Picasso initiative is one more building block so that one day Alzheimer\u2019s will be nothing more than a bad memory,” he added.<\/p>\n
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