{"id":531950,"date":"2026-04-15T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531950\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:50:07","slug":"paris-art-enthusiast-wins-e1m-picasso-painting-in-e100-charity-raffle-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531950\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris art enthusiast wins \u20ac1m Picasso painting in \u20ac100 charity raffle | France"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Parisian art enthusiast could not believe his luck when he found out on Tuesday he had won a Pablo Picasso<\/a> painting worth more than \u20ac1m with a \u20ac100 raffle ticket.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do I check that it\u2019s not a hoax?\u201d said Ari Hodara, 58, after organisers called him following the draw at Christie\u2019s auction house in the French capital.<\/p>\n

Hodara described himself as an art amateur fond of Picasso and said he had bought his ticket over the weekend after finding out about the charity raffle<\/a> by chance during a meal in a restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, I will tell the news to my wife, who has yet to return from work,\u201d said Hodara, a sales engineer. \u201cAnd at first I think I\u2019ll take advantage of it and keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The third iteration of the \u201c1 Picasso for \u20ac100\u201d lottery, in aid of Alzheimer\u2019s research, offered Picasso\u2019s Head of a Woman, a portrait of the artist\u2019s longtime muse and partner Dora Maar painted in 1941.<\/p>\n

Organisers said all 120,000 tickets had been sold, netting \u20ac12m (\u00a310.4m), of which \u20ac1m will be paid to the Opera Gallery, an international art dealership that owned the painting. Gilles Dyan, the gallery founder, said he had offered a preferential price for the painting, with the public price at \u20ac1.45m.<\/p>\n

In the first raffle, in 2013, a Pennsylvania man who worked at a fire-sprinkler business won Man in the Opera Hat, which the Spanish master painted in 1914 during his cubist period.<\/p>\n

In 2020 the oil-on-canvas Still Life went to Claudia Borgogno<\/a>, an accountant in Italy whose son had bought her the ticket as a Christmas present.<\/p>\n

Organisers said the two previous Picasso raffles had raised a total of more than \u20ac10m for cultural work in Lebanon and water and hygiene programmes in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Parisian art enthusiast could not believe his luck when he found out on Tuesday he had won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-531950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}