{"id":1882866,"date":"2026-04-15T06:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1882866"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:58:54","slug":"a-58-year-old-parisian-engineer-wins-e1m-picasso-after-buying-e100-raffle-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1882866","title":{"rendered":"A 58-year-old Parisian engineer wins \u20ac1m Picasso after buying \u20ac100 raffle ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/72\/23\/61\/1200x675_cmsv2_69e995ad-4e5e-563d-afd6-b016358a723d-9722361.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2886290-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1 the-media-object--has-video\" data-nid=\"2886290\" data-cid=\"9722390\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2886290-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"the-media-object__image\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/72\/23\/90\/189x106_cmsv2_b5aca466-5736-5cc9-9337-1c703153b12a-9722390.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Rafael Lopez Aliaga, presidential candidate of the Popular Renewal party, speaks to supporters as electoral authorities continue to count the ballots\" height=\"9\" width=\"16\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n                    No Comment<\/p>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    Peru election dispute deepens amid slow ballot count\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"abe-2886309-pos2-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1 the-media-object--has-video\" data-nid=\"2886309\" data-cid=\"9722507\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2886309-label-pos2-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"the-media-object__image\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/72\/25\/07\/189x106_cmsv2_a065f025-658f-560b-84b7-c973a251a6a4-9722507.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Rima Abdul Malak, former French Culture Minister and director of L\u2019Orient-Le Jour\" height=\"9\" width=\"16\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n                    Europe Today<\/p>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>     &#8216;A glimer of hope&#8217; 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Trade Minister\" height=\"9\" width=\"16\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n                    Europe Today<\/p>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    Hezbollah could eventually disarm &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s economy minister\n  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"helper-site-row o-article-newsy\">\n<div class=\"helper-site-container o-article-newsy__container\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__main\">\n<header class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__header\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs\">\n<div id=\"adb-article-breadcrumb\" class=\"c-article-breadcrumbs__list\">\n<p>                          Culture<\/p>\n<p>                          Art<\/p><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<h1 class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            A 58-year-old Parisian engineer wins \u20ac1m Picasso after buying \u20ac100 raffle ticket<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-video u-position-relative \">\n<div class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative u-max-width-1280 u-margin-x-auto\" data-video=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;xa5kdz8&quot;,&quot;articleId&quot;:2886273,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A 58-year-old Parisian engineer wins u20ac1m Picasso after buying u20ac100 raffle ticket&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/SHD\/41\/66\/92\/01\/SHD_PYR_4166921_20260415071803.mp4&quot;,&quot;programId&quot;:&quot;art&quot;,&quot;player&quot;:&quot;dailymotion&quot;,&quot;geoBlock&quot;:[&quot;&quot;],&quot;sources&quot;:[],&quot;description&quot;:&quot;Several million euros raised will be donated to the Alzheimer's Research Foundation.&quot;,&quot;isLive&quot;:false,&quot;articleUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/video\/2026\/04\/15\/a-58-year-old-parisian-engineer-wins-1m-picasso-after-buying-100-raffle-ticket&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:100000}\" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img c-article-media__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/72\/23\/61\/1536x864_cmsv2_69e995ad-4e5e-563d-afd6-b016358a723d-9722361.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"The painting &quot;T\u00eate de femme&quot; by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1941, is on display before the draw for the tombola at Christie's auction house in Paris.\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-caption u-position-absolute\"><i id=\"article-caption-content\" class=\"c-article-caption__content\"><span class=\"c-article-caption__text\"><br \/>\n              The painting &#8220;T\u00eate de femme&#8221; by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1941, is on display before the draw for the tombola at Christie&#8217;s auction house in Paris.<br \/>\n                    <span class=\"u-color-white\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__copyright\">Copyright\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__credit\">Michel Euler\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-copyright\">\n      Copyright\u00a0Michel Euler\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__body u-article-content\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__contributors-publication-date\">\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbsp<b>Serge Duch\u00eane<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1776236334\">\n                    Published on                 <time datetime=\"2026-04-15 08:58:54 +02:00\">15\/04\/2026 &#8211; 8:58 GMT+2<\/time><span class=\"c-article-publication-date__bullet\">\u2022<\/span>Updated<br \/>\n                                     <time datetime=\"09:18\">9:18<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire__links u-align-items-center u-display-flex u-justify-content-center js-c-article-partage-commentaire-share\"><span>Share<\/span><\/span><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<div 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donated to the Alzheimer&#8217;s Research Foundation.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content c-article-content--culture js-article-content\">\n<p>A Parisian engineer with a passion for art won an original Picasso painting worth over \u20ac1 million at a charity raffle. And it only cost him \u20ac100.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ari Hodara, 58, was drawn at a ceremony broadcast live by Christie&#8217;s auction house yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 120,000 tickets were sold at \u20ac100 each. The money raised will be donated to Alzheimer&#8217;s research.<\/p>\n<p>The prize was a portrait of Dora Maar, one of Picasso&#8217;s muses. Entitled &#8220;T\u00eate de femme&#8221; (&#8220;Head of a Woman&#8221;), this gouache in deep grey and blue tones was painted in 1941 and came from the Opera gallery, a private art dealer &#8211; which will collect \u20ac1 million of the \u20ac12 million raised.<\/p>\n<p>Gilles Dyan, the gallery&#8217;s founder, said he had offered a preferential price for the painting, the public price being \u20ac1.45 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666015625\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/72\/23\/61\/808x539_cmsv2_1e443370-adf1-518b-bfba-4c56940f33b5-9722361.jpg\" alt=\"Peri Cochin, co-founder of the \"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Peri Cochin, co-founder of the <\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Michel Euler\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;How do I know this isn&#8217;t a joke?&#8221; asked Hodara when he was called by the auction house after being drawn from ticket buyers from 52 countries.<\/p>\n<p>He describes himself as an art lover with a passion for Picasso and explained that he bought his ticket at the weekend after stumbling across the charity raffle while eating out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to break the news to my wife first, who isn&#8217;t back from work yet,&#8221; says Hodara, a sales engineer. &#8220;And in the first instance, I think I&#8217;m going to enjoy it and keep it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The organisers, led by French journalist Peri Cochin and supported by the painter&#8217;s family and foundation, held two similar raffles to win works by the Spanish master in 2013 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In the first draw in 2013, a 25-year-old American from Pennsylvania working for a fire-extinguishing systems company won &#8220;Man with an Opera Hat&#8221;, a work by the Spanish master painted in 1914 during his Cubist period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Still Life&#8221;, an oil on canvas, was put up for grabs in 2020 and won by Claudia Borgogno, an accountant from Ventimiglia in north-west Italy, whose son had given her the ticket for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Painted in 1921, the painting was acquired for the raffle from billionaire art collector David Nahmad, who claimed that Picasso would have approved of his work being put on the line.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6591796875\">\n<div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n<div class=\"widget__contents\">\n<figure class=\"widget__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/72\/23\/61\/808x532_cmsv2_7b895c7f-47c6-521a-acca-b9ce27eb231f-9722361.jpg\" alt=\"Passers-by contemplate the painting \"><figcaption class=\"widget__caption\"><span class=\"widget__captionWrap\"><span class=\"widget__captionText\">Passers-by contemplate the painting <\/span><span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Michel Euler\/Copyright 2026 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The remaining \u20ac11 million will be donated to the Alzheimer&#8217;s Research Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation, which is organising the charity raffle, is based at the Piti\u00e9-Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re Hospital,one of Paris&#8217;s leading public hospitals, and claims to have become France&#8217;s leading private funder of medical research into Alzheimer&#8217;s disease since its creation in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers said that the two previous Picasso tombolas had raised more than \u20ac10 million for cultural projects in Lebanon and water and sanitation programmes in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Funding for research is derisory,&#8221; said Olivier de Ladoucette, director of the foundation, on Tuesday. &#8220;In our developed societies, we still haven&#8217;t understood that this is a major public health problem and that everyone needs to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Picasso initiative is one more stone in the edifice that will one day make Alzheimer&#8217;s disease a thing of the past&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"perf-cv-auto c-article-contributors c-article-contributors-supplementary u-margin-top-2 u-padding-top-2\">\n<p>Additional sources<strong> \u2022 AFP, AP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>                          Go to accessibility shortcuts<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire__links u-align-items-center u-display-flex u-justify-content-center js-c-article-partage-commentaire-share\"><span>Share<\/span><\/span><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"adb-article-you-might-also-like\" class=\"perf-cv-auto c-article-you-might-also-like\">\n<h2 class=\"c-article-you-might-also-like__title\">\n        Read more<br \/>\n      <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-you-might-also-like__container\">\n<article id=\"abe-2885271-pos0-c-article-you-might-also-like__item\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2885271\" data-cid=\"9717776\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2885271-label-pos0-c-article-you-might-also-like__item\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"the-media-object__image\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/71\/77\/76\/480x270_cmsv2_30be4f1c-724d-58a5-8fa5-28b8c2b11d8d-9717776.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"People look at the Head of a Woman by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1941, in Paris, Friday, April 10, 2026, where the draw will be handled by auction house Christie's next week. \" height=\"9\" width=\"16\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n                    Culture news<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    Fancy a Picasso for\u00a0\u20ac100? 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And it only cost him \u20ac100.Ari Hodara, 58, was drawn at a ceremony broadcast live by Christie&#8217;s auction house yesterday.A total of 120,000 tickets were sold at \u20ac100 each. The money raised will be donated to Alzheimer&#8217;s research.The prize was a portrait of Dora Maar, one of Picasso&#8217;s muses. Entitled &#8220;T\u00eate de femme&#8221; (&#8220;Head of a Woman&#8221;), this gouache in deep grey and blue tones was painted in 1941 and came from the Opera gallery, a private art dealer &#8211; which will collect \u20ac1 million of the \u20ac12 million raised.Gilles Dyan, the gallery&#8217;s founder, said he had offered a preferential price for the painting, the public price being \u20ac1.45 million.&#8221;How do I know this isn&#8217;t a joke?&#8221; asked Hodara when he was called by the auction house after being drawn from ticket buyers from 52 countries.He describes himself as an art lover with a passion for Picasso and explained that he bought his ticket at the weekend after stumbling across the charity raffle while eating out.&#8221;I&#8217;m going to break the news to my wife first, who isn&#8217;t back from work yet,&#8221; says Hodara, a sales engineer. &#8220;And in the first instance, I think I&#8217;m going to enjoy it and keep it.&#8221;The organisers, led by French journalist Peri Cochin and supported by the painter&#8217;s family and foundation, held two similar raffles to win works by the Spanish master in 2013 and 2020.In the first draw in 2013, a 25-year-old American from Pennsylvania working for a fire-extinguishing systems company won &#8220;Man with an Opera Hat&#8221;, a work by the Spanish master painted in 1914 during his Cubist period.&#8221;Still Life&#8221;, an oil on canvas, was put up for grabs in 2020 and won by Claudia Borgogno, an accountant from Ventimiglia in north-west Italy, whose son had given her the ticket for Christmas.Painted in 1921, the painting was acquired for the raffle from billionaire art collector David Nahmad, who claimed that Picasso would have approved of his work being put on the line.The remaining \u20ac11 million will be donated to the Alzheimer&#8217;s Research Foundation.The Foundation, which is organising the charity raffle, is based at the Piti\u00e9-Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re Hospital, one of Paris&#8217;s leading public hospitals, and claims to have become France&#8217;s leading private funder of medical research into Alzheimer&#8217;s disease since its creation in 2004.The organisers said that the two previous Picasso tombolas had raised more than \u20ac10 million for cultural projects in Lebanon and water and sanitation programmes in Africa.&#8221;Funding for research is derisory,&#8221; 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