US EditionMan wins €1m Picasso painting in €100 charity raffle
All 120,000 tickets sold worldwide, and the roughly €11 million charity share will fund Alzheimer’s research in France.
- On Tuesday, a Parisian man named Ari Hodara won a $1 million Pablo Picasso painting after purchasing a $117 raffle ticket during a draw at Christie in Paris to support Alzheimer-related research.
- Organized by The Alzheimer Research Foundation, the raffle sold 120,000 tickets worldwide, with the Paris-based charity having raised over 10 million euros through previous medical research efforts since its 2004 founding.
- The winning ticket secured the 1941 work 'Head of a Woman,' a portrait of Dora Maar, while the raffle netted 12 million euros with 1 million euros paid to the Opera Gallery, which owned the painting.
- Upon receiving the call, Hodara questioned if the win was a hoax, then said, "First, I will tell the news to my wife, who has yet to return from work," and plans to keep the painting.
- This marks the third Picasso raffle since 2013, following a Pennsylvania man who won 'Man in the Opera Hat' and an Italian accountant who received a 'Still Life' painting in 2020.
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Parisan Ari Hodar won the Pablo Picasso painting, worth about a million euros, and the art was played on a charity lottery that cost 100 euros.
Ari Hodara, a 58-year-old Parisian engineer, won a Picasso painting estimated at one million euros in a charitable raffle at 100 euros a ticket. This international operation collected 11...
A raffle drawing was held in Paris on Tuesday to win an original painting by world-famous painter Pablo Picasso. The lucky new owner of the piece is a 59-year-old amateur art admirer, also from Paris.
At a charity auction held by Christie's, a 58-year-old Parisian won a Pablo Picasso painting worth almost 1.5 million euros for 100 euros. His prize is a portrait of Dora Maar, Tete de femme (Head of a Woman), painted in gouache during World War II.
The painting is a gouache portrait of the artist and photographer Dora Maar, dating from 1941, entitled "Women's head".
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