A rare portrait by Pablo Picasso will be offered as the prize in a raffle held in France to support Alzheimer’s research. The drawing is scheduled for Tuesday at Christie’s auction house in Paris. Participants can enter by purchasing a ticket for 100 euros (approximately $117).

This raffle follows two previous events with a similar format. The inaugural raffle in 2013 awarded a 1914 Cubist work titled "Man in the Opera Hat" to a fire sprinkler worker from Pennsylvania. In 2020, the prize was an oil-on-canvas still life from 1921, “Nature Morte,” which was won by an accountant in Italy. The latter painting was provided by billionaire collector David Nahmad, who expressed his belief that Picasso would have supported making art accessible to a broad audience rather than exclusively to wealthy collectors.

Picasso, who died in 1973, was known for his generosity, reportedly giving paintings to friends and associates such as his driver and tailor. Nahmad emphasized that the artist wanted his works to be held by a diverse range of people, not limited to the elite.

The current portrait, titled "Tête de Femme" (Head of a Woman), is a gouache on paper created in 1941. Proceeds from the raffle will be directed towards funding Alzheimer's disease research efforts in France.