A charity raffle is offering participants the chance to win Pablo Picasso’s 1941 artwork “Tête de Femme,” valued at over $1-million, for the price of a 100-euro ticket (about $116 USD). A total of 120-thousand tickets are available for the April 14th drawing, with proceeds supporting the Alzheimer’s Research Foundation and its clinical research efforts across Europe.
The painting, created in Paris during World War II, reflects Picasso’s Cubist style and was donated by the Opera Gallery for the initiative. Olivier Widmaier Picasso, the artist’s grandson, believes the piece may be worth even more than its estimated million-dollar value and notes that the work was created in the same studio as Picasso’s famous 1937 anti-war painting “Guernica.”
This marks the third edition of the “1 Picasso for 100 euros” campaign, following earlier efforts that supported heritage preservation in Lebanon and clean water programs during the Covid-19 pandemic. The winner of the raffle will be free to keep, display, or sell the artwork.
Source: CNN