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Lottery ticket 100 euros: woman won Picasso paintings

A woman in Paris won a valuable Picasso at a bargain price tonight. The work “Still Life” by the Spanish cubist from 1921 has been pursued for charitable purposes, as was the case with a live broadcast of the Christie’s auction house. The winner’s stake for the raffle was 100 euros, the value of the picture: around one million. An Italian woman who had received the winning ticket as a gift had a lot of luck in the electronic drawing.

According to the organizers, a total of a good 51,000 lots were sold at a price of EUR 100, thus generating EUR 5.1 million for projects run by the aid organization Care. Most of the tickets were bought by French people: they made up 29 percent of the participants, 21 percent came from the United States and 19 percent from Switzerland.

“Complicated action in complicated times”

The organizers actually wanted to sell 200,000 tickets, but the number of visitors was lower. Care communications chief Emanuela Croce was nevertheless satisfied. “With more than five million, we have achieved an extraordinary result for a complicated action in difficult times,” she told AFP.

The owner of the painting, the art collector David Nahmad, will receive one million euros, the rest of the proceeds will go to care projects in Africa. This should give 200,000 people in Madagascar, Cameroon and Morocco access to clean drinking water. The raffle, which had already been planned for January, had been postponed to March because of initially moderate interest – then the coronavirus crisis intervened.

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