Million-dollar Picasso Sold at Charity Raffle for 100 Euros

A million-dollar drawing by Pablo Picasso was snapped up on Wednesday by a 25-year-old American art lover at a online charity raffle for a mere 100 euros ($140).   Jeffrey Gonano said he had been looking for a picture to hang on his living room wall when he read a news article about “L'Homme au Gibus” (“Man with Opera Hat”), raffled by Sotheby's in Paris.   “I was looking for art and I thought I might as well,” the project manager at a fire sprinkler firm told Reuters...

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