The chance to own a Picasso painting for just 100 euros.

For many, owning a painting by the great artist Picasso is merely a luxurious dream. And art lovers who lack the financial means can only admire his works in upscale art galleries in Spain or France.

However, a lottery program run by a French charity offered the chance to own one of Picasso's works for just 100 euros.

This painting, created in 1941 and titled "Tête de femme," which roughly translates to "Head of a Woman," is valued at over one million euros.

The model for the painting is Dora Maar, a French photographer and painter, and one of Picasso's muses.

This event is being organized by the French charity Foundation Recherche Alzheimer's. Picasso's family and foundation are supporting this fundraising effort, and tickets are being sold online.

A total of 120,000 tickets will be sold, and the proceeds will go to the Alzheimer's Research Fund.

The winner will be presented with the painting on April 14th next year at Christie's, an auction house in Paris.

Previously, two similar lotteries, also conducted by this organization, took place in 2013 and 2020.

A 25-year-old American from Pennsylvania won the prize in the first draw; and an accountant from Ventimiglia, Italy, won in the second draw after her son gave her the lottery ticket as a Christmas gift.

Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, southern Spain, and died in 1973.

He was a renowned painter in human history, and a co-founder of Cubism – a movement that analyzed subjects into geometric shapes.

During his lifetime, he lived in poverty and often reused his paintings because he lacked the money to buy new ones.

But instead of erasing the old images, he often simply painted over them, and thanks to this, later, using modern technology, people discovered the old images hidden beneath Picasso's works.

In 2025, a drawing of a mysterious woman was discovered beneath one of his earliest works.

In 2023, conservators working with the Guggenheim Museum in New York discovered a small dog hidden beneath the surface of the painting “Le Moulin de la Galette.”

Meanwhile, in 2020, a secret sketch by Picasso was found hidden beneath one of his most famous works after experts from the Art Institute of Chicago used X-rays to examine wrinkles in the canvas.

The drawing, which appears to depict a vase, a cup, and a newspaper placed on a chair, was scribbled on the back of the canvas used for his 1922 work "Still Life" .

An analysis of a painting in 2018 revealed a landscape painting in a style entirely different from Picasso's, hidden beneath his 1902 oil painting "La Misereuse Accroupie" (The Bent-Over Beggar), suggesting he had painted over another artist's work.

Art experts also discovered a man wearing a bow tie, his face resting on his hand, hidden beneath Picasso's "Blue Room" in 2014.

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