Paris (AFP)

Admire a Picasso while sitting in his living room: this dream will become reality for the winner of an international charity lottery for which will be sold 200,000 tickets to 100 euros to win a work of the Spanish master.

The table, valued at 1 million euros, is entitled "Still life". Directed in 1921, it is a geometric composition in which a piece of newspaper and a glass of absinthe appear.

With the lottery, the organizers hope to raise 20 million euros. One million will be paid to the owner of the painting, the collector David Nahmad, and the rest will be used to finance a project of the NGO Care in Africa.

In 2013, the organizers of this lottery had already tested the concept and managed to raise $ 5 million to renovate the Lebanese city of Tire.

"The usual art is associated with volunteering at gala dinners where works of art are auctioned, and this remains open only to people who are seated at this dinner and who have the means," commented on Tuesday. Picasso Museum of Paris Péri Cochin, the promoter of this initiative.

With this lottery, "100 euros is a significant sum but there are many people who can put 100 euros," he added.

"Still life" is a painting made at a time when the artist "synthesized the currents realistic and cubist", told AFP Laurent Le Bon, the director of the museum Picasso, where is currently on display. According to him, "it is a work that makes you think and dream".

The draw will take place in Paris on January 6, 2020. In 2013, it was a 25-year-old American, who was responsible in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a fire safety company, which had won.

The organizers plan to hold this type of lottery each year for the benefit of various humanitarian associations. Tickets are on sale at 1picasso100euros.com.

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