An Italian woman has won a Pablo Picasso painting worth 1 million euros ($1.67 million) in a French charity raffle that raised money for African water projects.
Key points:
- Claudia Borgogno was given the winning ticket as a Christmas present by her son
- The raffle raised $8.5 million, with tickets sold in 100 countries
- Picasso's still life Nature Morte was painted in 1921
Claudia Borgogno, 58, who received her lottery ticket as a Christmas gift from her son, will acquire the Spanish master's still life Nature Morte, easing her family's worries during the coronavirus pandemic.
Italy has been one of the world's hardest-hit countries, with more than 32,000 deaths due to COVID-19.
The small oil-on-canvas piece, which was painted in 1921, shows a newspaper and a glass of absinthe on a wooden table.
"Incredible," Ms Borgogno said from her home in Ventimiglia, northern Italy, after discovering that she had acquired the valuable painting.
Ms Borgogno said she likes Picasso and the prospect of being able to hang one of the 20th-century master's rare works on her wall was still sinking in.
Her son, Lorenzo Naso, bought two tickets in the raffle last December, sending one to his mother.
"It was maybe the best decision in my life," said Mr Naso, an accountant who lives in Paris but has been staying with his mother during the pandemic.
The raffle in Paris raised 5.1 million euros ($8.5 million), of which 900,000 euros ($1.5 million) will go to Monaco billionaire collector David Nahmad, who provided the painting.
The rest will be used by charity CARE for clean-water projects in schools and villages in Cameroon, Madagascar and Morocco.
Mr Nahmad also gave 100,000 euros ($167,000) to CARE.
"Picasso would have loved an operation like this because he was someone with a lot of interest in humanitarian and social causes," said Peri Cochin, the organiser of the sale.
She said that more than 51,000 tickets costing 100 euros ($167) had been sold in the raffle, which had been delayed by the COVID-19 crisis.
"This coronavirus crisis has made it clear how important it is to wash your hands, and that can only be done with clear water," Ms Cochin said.
At the first edition of the raffle in 2013, a 25-year-old American won the Picasso drawing The Man in the Opera Hat.
It raised 4.8 million euros ($8 million) for an association working to preserve the ancient city of Tyre, in modern-day Lebanon.
After a six-year gap between the first two Picasso raffles, the organisers hope to run an annual edition of the event, helping a different organisation each year.
The highest price ever fetched by a Picasso artwork was in 2015, when the 1955 Les femmes d'Alger was sold for $US179.4 million ($273 million).
This year, tickets were bought in more than 100 countries, with the majority sold in France, the United States, Switzerland and Italy.
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2020-05-21 04:30:57Z
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