The third edition of the 1 Picasso for 100 euros online charity raffle was won by a Parisian engineer, Ari Hodara, who won Pablo Picasso’s painting Tête de Femme: a gouache on paper (38.9 × 25.4 cm) created in 1941, with an estimated value of around one million euros. The work comes from the collections of Opera Gallery, founded in 1994 by Gilles Dyan, a partner in the initiative for this third edition.
The drawing took place yesterday afternoon in Paris at Christie’s auction house. The tickets, a total of 120,000, were available at a cost of 100 euros each, and the entire proceeds will be donated to the Fondation Recherche Alzheimer’s, the leading institution in France committed to the study of the disease and related pathologies. The charity project was conceived by Péri Cochin, founder of Waww La Table, and implemented in collaboration with several partners, including Fondation Recherche Alzheimer’s, Christie’s, Opera Gallery, the Picasso Estate, Picasso Administration, and PAD (Pavilion of Art & Design). The lottery has also been approved by the Paris Police Prefecture and authorized by the Picasso Succession and Administration Picasso.
The first edition was in 2013 and raffled off L’Homme au Gibus (1914), also by Picasso. The winner was Jeffrey Gonano, a young American art enthusiast from Wexford, Pennsylvania. On that occasion, 4.8 million euros were raised for theInternational Association for the Preservation of Tyre, an ancient city in southern Lebanon and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The funds enabled the construction of a 1,500-square-meter craft village aimed at reviving ancient craft techniques, creating jobs and supporting the local economy.
The second edition, in 2020, had Nature morte, an oil on canvas by Picasso, as its prize. The winner was Italian Lorenzo Nasso, who bought the card as a Christmas gift for his mother, Claudia Borgogno, of Ventimiglia. In that edition, 5.1 million euros were raised for CARE International, for upgrades to more than 100 wells and health facilities in schools and villages in Cameroon, Madagascar and Morocco.
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