{"id":6215,"date":"2026-04-15T01:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6215\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:29:21","slug":"paris-raffle-offers-1m-picasso-painting-for-less-than-120-to-raise-money-for-alzheimers-research-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6215\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris raffle offers $1M Picasso painting for less than $120 to raise money for Alzheimer\u2019s research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"A display for a lottery to win a Picasso painting, \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"828\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d88b5be223ac9a1cc3b7720292e4261f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Peri Cochin, co-founder of the \u201c1 Picasso for 100 euros\u201d poses next to Head of a Woman by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1941, in Paris, Friday, April 10, 2026, ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PARIS \u2014 In a few hours, one lucky winner will find themselves the owner of a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/14\/world-news\/picasso-painting-will-be-raffled-off-in-paris-in-april\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pablo Picasso painting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Pablo Picasso painting<\/a> for less than $120.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/scientists-discover-death-complex-could-205727355.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alzheimer\u2019s\u00a0research;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Alzheimer\u2019s\u00a0research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The draw takes place later Tuesday at Christie\u2019s auction house in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"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\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fae8a6f067ce5844d58d11863112e024.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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<p><img alt=\"People look at Picasso\u2019s \u201cHead of a Woman\u201d on April 10, 2026, at Christie\u2019s auction house in Paris. AP\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fb74b5c7ff27cea9ad925622bb7f8a9d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People look at Picasso\u2019s \u201cHead of a Woman\u201d on April 10, 2026, at Christie\u2019s auction house in Paris. AP<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The gouache on paper was painted by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/24\/world-news\/rare-picasso-portrait-of-longtime-muse-dora-maar-sells-for-31-million\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Picasso;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Picasso<\/a> in 1941.<\/p>\n<p>The first such raffle\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-oddities-europe-arts-and-entertainment-945fccb65ca7431eba806834db87a1d6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in 2013;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">in 2013<\/a>\u00a0saw\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oddities-europe-1aacc5bb1c184a94838c38dcad87c25b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a Pennsylvania man who worked at a fire-sprinkler business;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">a 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<p><img alt=\"The gouache on paper was painted by Picasso in 1941. AP\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"1023\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/beac1006fa8c2f35c372be734047ea1a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The gouache on paper was painted by Picasso in 1941. AP<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-fff4e4bb4706352ebc35995fd79b85bf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:bought her the ticket;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">bought her the ticket<\/a>\u00a0as a Christmas present.<\/p>\n<p>Painted in 1921, that painting was purchased for the raffle from billionaire art collector David Nahmad, who argued in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-ap-top-news-painting-international-news-monaco-8b9bfbc3670b7e1f97c28ab1e27fdc99\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:an Associated Press interview;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">an Associated Press interview<\/a>\u00a0that Picasso would have approved of raffling his work. Picasso\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UOoCUzRUGK4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:died in 1973;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">died in 1973<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Of that, 1 million euros will be paid to the Opera Gallery, an international art dealership that owns the painting.<\/p>\n<p>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":"Peri Cochin, co-founder of the \u201c1 Picasso for 100 euros\u201d poses next to Head of a Woman by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5233,4468,3604,30,5232,4465],"class_list":{"0":"post-6215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-100-euros","9":"tag-alzheimers-research","10":"tag-painting","11":"tag-paris","12":"tag-peri-cochin","13":"tag-picasso"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","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=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}