An Italian accountant won a Pablo Picasso oil painting valued at 1 million euros, in an online raffle for charity in France. Read more:
PARIS -- An Italian accountant whose son bought her the raffle ticket as a Christmas present won a Pablo Picasso oil painting valued at 1 million euros in a charity draw Wednesday."I have never won anything before," the 58-year-old told The Associated Press from her home in Ventimiglia, northern Italy. She said she likes Picasso, and the prospect of being able to hang one of the 20th Century master's paintings on her wall was still sinking in.
The draw was originally scheduled for March but delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Naso told The AP that he hadn't realized it was taking place Wednesday and wasn't watching the live broadcast."When I arrived and I told her she has won she was like, `Please don't joke,"' he said. "She is not going to sleep tonight."
The small still life, which is signed "Picasso," shows a newspaper and a glass of absinthe on a wood table. Picasso painted it in 1921.
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