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A moody 1941 portrait of a woman by the Spanish artist will be given to the winner of a charity raffle that\u2019s being staged to fund Alzheimer\u2019s research<\/h2>\n
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Ella Feldman<\/a><\/p>\n

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T\u00eate de femme<\/em>,\u00a0Pablo Picasso, 1941
\n Succession Picasso via Christie’s<\/span>
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T\u00eate de femme<\/em>, a Picasso painting worth more than $1 million, could be yours for roughly $117.<\/p>\n

The portrait is being raffled on behalf of the\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s Research Foundation<\/a>, a French charity aiming to fund research into the progressive brain disorder, which does not have a known cure. It\u2019s the third edition of the\u00a0international raffle<\/a>, which offers a painting by\u00a0Pablo Picasso<\/a>, one of the 20th-century\u2019s most influential artists, to one lucky raffle ticket holder for a charitable cause.<\/p>\n

T\u00eate de femme<\/em> (Head of a Woman<\/em>) is a 1941 portrait of a woman painted during a period that was \u201cextremely complicated\u201d for the Spanish artist, his grandson Olivier Picasso tells the\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u2019 Jenny Gross. Picasso most likely painted it in the same Paris studio where he created\u00a0Guernica<\/em><\/a>, his monumental 1937 anti-war canvas.<\/p>\n

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Fun fact: How big is Guernica<\/i>?<\/h4>\n

Picasso\u2019s large-scale canvas, inspired by a bombing during the Spanish Civil War, is 25.5 feet long and 11.5 feet tall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The portrait being raffled is an abstracted interpretation of a woman\u2019s face featuring curved brushstrokes. The painting\u2019s dominant black and gray colors mirrored Picasso\u2019s unhappiness, his grandson tells the Times<\/em>. At the time, the artist was separating from his first wife, Olga Khokhlova.<\/p>\n

The Alzheimer\u2019s Research Foundation hopes the moody painting will generate enough interest to sell 120,000 tickets. Priced at \u20ac100 (around $117) each, the raffle could raise nearly $13 million for Alzheimer\u2019s research after covering the cost of the painting. (The Opera Gallery, which owns the painting, will be paid slightly less than \u20ac1 million for the painting after the draw, per the Times<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Tickets are being sold exclusively on the foundation\u2019s\u00a0website<\/a>. The raffle will be held by Christie\u2019s in Paris on April 14, 2026.<\/p>\n

The event is organized by French television host P\u00e9ri Cochin, who was inspired by her mother\u2019s fundraising events, per\u00a0Artnet<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Richard Whiddington. In the 2010s, she received full support from the Picasso family foundation.<\/p>\n

The first raffle took place in 2013. Picasso\u2019s L\u2019Homme au Gibus<\/em> raised around \u20ac5 million ($5.8 million) to protect Tyre<\/a>, an ancient Phoenician city in Lebanon. The winner was Jeffrey Gonano, a 25-year-old man from Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still in shock. It\u2019s still very odd,\u201d Gonano told the Tribune-Review<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Michael Hasch in 2013. \u201cI never thought I would win. I just saw a news article on Yahoo and bought a ticket. I don\u2019t even know why.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nature Morte,\u00a0<\/em>Pablo Picasso, 1921<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Succession Picasso, Paris, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A\u00a0second raffle, in 2020<\/a>, raised another \u20ac5 million for CARE, which runs clean water and hygiene programs across Africa. The prize was Nature Morte<\/em>, a 1921 Picasso painting depicting a newspaper and a glass of absinthe. The winner was Claudia Borgogno, a 58-year-old Italian woman whose son bought her a raffle ticket. \u201cIt was maybe the best decision in my life,\u201d her son, Lorenzo Naso, told the\u00a0Associated Press<\/a>\u2019 John Leicester in 2020.<\/p>\n

Olivier Picasso tells the Times <\/em>that the raffle is an important way to honor his grandfather.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssociating the name of Pablo Picasso to charity, a charitable purpose, is very important because my grandfather was very generous with the people around him,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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