Chance to win a €1m Picasso with a €100 ticket in Paris raffle

Would you like a €1 million painting by iconic Spanish artist Pablo Picasso for just €100? It could be yours if you buy a ticket for a new raffle, in partnership with Paris auction house Christie’s France.

Tickets priced at €100 are available to buy online to secure your entry to the ‘1 Picasso for 100 euros’ raffle draw, which will take place at the auction house on Avenue Matignon at 18:00, on April 14, 2026. 

You can buy a maximum of 20 tickets in a single transaction online. Once purchased, the tickets are available immediately, and are also emailed to you. You can address them to someone else as a gift, and add a message if you wish.

The event is also in partnership with the Picasso Estate, with the artwork coming from the Opera Gallery network.

The painting, Tête de Femme by Picasso, was painted in 1941, and is valued at €1 million. It is 38.9 cm tall and 25.4 cm wide, and mounted in an impressive brown and black frame. It is in the artist’s instantly-recognisable Cubism style.

This third edition of the lottery event is helping to support the Fondation Recherche Alzheimer (FRA), France's largest organisation dedicated to research into Alzheimer's and related diseases. The foundation helps support almost 200 researchers worldwide, and is recognised by the French government as an “organisation of public benefit”.

The FRA states that 35 million people worldwide are affected by Alzheimer's and related diseases, with that number set to double every 20 years.

The full ticket price goes directly to the FRA.

Millions raised

Previous raffles took place in 2013 and 2020. 

In 2013, the €1m painting on offer was L'Homme au Gibus, a 1914 piece also by Picasso. It was won by then-25-year-old art fan Jeffrey Gonano, from Pennsylvania, US. 

The €4.8 million raised by the event went to the International Association to Save Tyre (a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Lebanon), and help to build a handicraft village to help revive ancient techniques and create local employment.

The 2020 event had a €1m Nature Morte by Picasso as the prize, and raised €5.1 million for CARE International. The money helped to rehabilitate more than 100 wells and sanitary installations used by more than 200,000 people in schools and villages in Cameroon, Madagascar, and Morocco. 

The winner that year was Lorenzo Nasso, who had bought the raffle ticket as a birthday present for his mother, Claudia Borgogno of Ventimiglia (Italy). She is now the painting’s owner.