<\/p>\n 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 of a lottery in which the painting is being raffled off to raise money for Alzheimer\u2019s research. (AP Photo\/Michel Euler)<\/p>\n 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 of a lottery in which the painting is being raffled off to raise money for Alzheimer\u2019s research. (AP Photo\/Michel Euler)<\/p>\n Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Read More<\/p>\n Organizers said all 120,000 tickets were sold worldwide, netting 12 million euros ($14 million). Of that, 1 million euros will be paid to the Opera Gallery, an international art dealership that owned the painting.<\/p>\n Gilles Dyan, the gallery founder, said he offered a preferential price for the painting, with the public price at 1.45 million euros. <\/p>\n The first raffle in 2013<\/a> saw a Pennsylvania man who worked at a fire-sprinkler business<\/a> win \u201cMan in the Opera Hat,\u201d which the Spanish master painted in 1914 during his Cubist period.<\/p>\n The oil-on-canvas \u201cStill Life\u201d was raffled off in 2020 and won by Claudia Borgogno, an accountant in Italy whose son bought her the ticket<\/a> as a Christmas present.<\/p>\n Painted in 1921, that painting was purchased for the raffle from billionaire art collector David Nahmad, who argued in an interview with The Associated Press<\/a> that Picasso would have approved of his work being raffled. Picasso died in 1973<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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 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":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 A Parisian art enthusiast could not believe his luck when he found out Tuesday he\u2019d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4012,295665,449,458,459,64,63,295668,295667,9757,460,104223,134,2592,482,295669,15393,1625,295666,20560,100233,33394,2591,1346],"class_list":{"0":"post-607852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-alzheimers-disease","9":"tag-ari-hodara","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-au","14":"tag-australia","15":"tag-claudia-borgogno","16":"tag-david-nahmad","17":"tag-dementia","18":"tag-design","19":"tag-dora-maar","20":"tag-entertainment","21":"tag-france","22":"tag-general-news","23":"tag-gilles-dyan","24":"tag-international-news","25":"tag-lifestyle","26":"tag-lotteries","27":"tag-oddities","28":"tag-pablo-picasso","29":"tag-painting","30":"tag-paris","31":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Peri](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776232452_732_.jpeg\")
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