Overview
- Ari Hodara, 58, bought ticket 94,715 over the weekend after seeing TV coverage, and his number was drawn Tuesday at Christie’s Paris in a live event overseen by a court officer.
- The campaign sold 120,000 tickets at €100 each across 152 countries and raised €12 million before accounting for the painting’s acquisition.
- Organizers say the work was supplied at a preferential price by Opera Gallery, while estimates range from €1.4 million to €1.45 million versus the €1 million cited by the raffle.
- The prize is Picasso’s 1941 gouache Tête de femme, a portrait of Dora Maar with a provenance that runs from the artist and his family to later collections in New York and Zurich.
- The format, created by producer Péri Cochin, follows 2013 and 2020 editions that raised about €5 million each for projects in Lebanon and for Care’s water and hygiene programs.