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You can own a $1 million Picasso for only $117? Here's how

Nbcwashington · · 368 words · By Jeffrey Schaeffer Alex Turnbull; The Associated Press; John Leicester
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“A raffle in France is offering the chance to win a portrait by Pablo Picasso for the price of a 100-euro ($117) ticket, with proceeds going to Alzheimer’s research.”
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Wikipedia evidence references unrelated topics (Farah Pahlavi, Jacqueline Lamba, Robert Doisneau) with no mention of Picasso raffles or Alzheimer's research. No corroboration found in cross-references or web search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Farah Pahlavi (Persian: فرح پهلوی; née Diba [دیبا]; born 14 October 1938) is a member of the Pahlavi dynasty. She was the last queen and empress (شهبانو, Shahbânu) of Iran and is the third wife and wi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jacqueline Lamba (17 November 1910 – 20 July 1993) was a French painter and surrealist artist. She was married to the surrealist André Breton.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert Doisneau (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ dwano]; 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and, wi…
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“The draw is on Tuesday at Christie's auction house in Paris.”
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Wikipedia evidence references Jean Metzinger, expensive artworks, and The Blue Guitar. No mention of Christie's raffle or Paris event details in provided sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (French: [mɛtsɛ̃ʒe]; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. Its 2010 private sale price was estimated to be about US$110 million ($162 million in 2025 dol…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Blue Guitar is a suite of twenty etchings with aquatint by David Hockney, drawn in 1976–77 and published in 1977 in London and New York by Petersburg Press. The frontispiece to the portfolio menti…
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“The inaugural '1 Picasso for 100 euros' raffle, in 2013, saw a fire-sprinkler worker in Pennsylvania win 'Man in the Opera Hat,' which the Spanish master painted in 1914 during his Cubist period.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and archit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, Califo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Leo Stein (May 11, 1872 – July 29, 1947) was an American art collector and critic. He was born in Allegheny City (now in Pittsburgh), the older brother of Gertrude Stein. He became an influential prom…
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“A second Picasso, the oil-on-canvas 'Nature Morte,' was raffled off in 2020 and made a very happy mom of Claudia Borgogno, an accountant in Italy. Her son bought her the ticket as a Christmas present.”
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“That still life, painted in 1921, was purchased for the raffle from billionaire art collector David Nahmad, who argued in a rare Associated Press interview that Picasso would have approved of raffling his work. Picasso died in 1973.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references to confirm details about 'Nature Morte' or its connection to Alzheimer's research.
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“The gouache on paper 'Tête de Femme,' meaning 'head of a woman,' up for grabs next week was painted by Picasso in 1941. It's valued at 1 million euros ($1.17 million).”
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“The Alzheimer Research Foundation, the charity raffle's organizer, is based in one of Paris' leading public hospitals and says it has become France's leading private financier of Alzheimer-related medical research since its founding in 2004.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia, web search, or cross-references to confirm Alzheimer's research connection or raffle details.
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“Christie’s auction house says the painting will be on view from Monday at its galleries in Paris, ahead of Tuesday's 6 p.m. draw there.”
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“The organizers’ online sales platform says the number of tickets will be capped at 120,000, meaning the draw could net 12 million euros ($14 million) if they're all sold.”
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“From the proceeds, 1 million euros will be paid to the Opera Gallery, an international art dealership that owns the painting.”
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“Organizers say the two previous Picasso raffles raised a total of more than 10 million euros for cultural work in Lebanon and water and hygiene programs in Africa.”
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