An Italian accountant whose son bought her a raffle ticket as a Christmas present won a Pablo Picasso oil painting valued at more than $1 million.
Raffle organizers Peri Cochin, left, and Arabenne Reille unbox the painting "Nature morte" by Picasso at Christie's auction house, Tuesday, May 19, 2020 in Paris. After an eight-week delay caused by France's COVID-19 lockdown, the Christie's auction house in Paris is hosting a raffle draw Wednesday for "Nature Morte," an oil on canvas that Picasso painted in 1921.
. She said she likes Picasso, and the prospect of being able to hang one of the 20th Century master's paintings on her wall was still sinking in.“It was maybe the best decision in my life," he told The AP.Organizers valued the painting, “Nature Morte,” or Still Life, as being worth 1 million euros. The billionaire art collector who provided it, David Nahmad, said the work is worth “at least two, three times” that.
The 51,140 tickets sold online for 100 euros each. Proceeds are going to provide water for villagers in Madagascar and Cameroon. Naso, an analyst for the European Union's securities markets regulator, lives in Paris but has been staying with his mother in“It was a pretty awful period for us during this lockdown and now it’s great news,” he said.
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