A French has won the raffle for a painting by Pablo Picasso, held this Tuesday in Paris, among the thousands of participants who They had bought some of the 120,000 tickets for 100 euros to try to get the work, valued at one million euros, in a raffle whose profits will go to the investigation of the Alzheimer’s.
Simply titled ‘Tête de femme’ (Woman’s head) and painted in 1941 by the genius from Malaga, the work in question is a gouache on paper that portrays his then partner, the photographer Dora Maar, and was awarded today at Christie’s auction house in Paris, where the drawing took place.
All the tickets were sold early on Friday, so the organizers of the charity raffle – the fourth of ‘a Picasso for a hundred euros’ – They have managed to raise 12 million euros. The winner was identified as Frenchman Ari Hodara, from Paris.
One million of the money raised will be used to pay for the painting at a preferential price to a Parisian art gallery, announced Péri Cochin, a Franco-Lebanese entertainer and television producer, who was the origin of this idea.
The remaining eleven million euros will go to benefit the Fondation Recherche Alzheimer, whose president, Dr. Olivier de Ladoucette, described as “bright“the idea of making “a planetary raffle with a unique prize.”
