Online lottery raffles a Picasso painting worth 1million for 100 euros for charity

There is time until May 20, 2020 to try to win a painting by Pablo Picasso at a cost of only one hundred euros. This is the 1 Picasso for 100 euros initiative: an international online charity lottery aimed at raising funds for humanitarian development projects carried out by nonprofits.

The lottery, in its second edition, kicked off in October 2019 and will end with thedrawing of the winning ticket, which will be held at Christie’s in Paris on Wednesday, May 20 at 6 p.m. Up for grabs is the work Still Life created in 1921 by the Cubist painter.

Tickets can be purchased until 12 noon on May 20, 2020 at 1picasso100euros.com: 200,000 tickets have been put on sale and so far 29 percent of entrants are French, 21 percent American, 19 percent Swiss, and 6 percent Italian. It will be possible to follow the draw via live streaming on the site.

To participate, you need to buy a ticket on 1picasso100euros.com at the price of 100 euros (you can buy multiple tickets to offer them as gifts). The funds raised will be used to create and strengthen drinking water access and sanitation projects to help the most vulnerable communities in Africa: a project to build and rehabilitate wells and washing facilities in villages and schools in Cameroon, Madagascar, and Morocco will be launched to make access to water easier for two hundred thousand people. The raffle is in fact in partnership with CARE, among the world’s leading NGOs.

The painting up for grabs, estimated at one million euros, will be accompanied by two certificates of authenticity, signed by Maya Widmaier-Picasso and Claude Ruiz-Picasso.

Pictured: Pablo Picasso, Still Life (1921; oil on canvas, 22.9 x 45.7 cm)

Online lottery raffles a Picasso painting worth 1million for 100 euros for charity

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