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Raffle organizer Peri Cochin [Photo: Charles Platiau]
An Italian woman on Wednesday won a Pablo Picasso painting worth Sh118 million ($1.1 million) in a French charity raffle that raised money for African water projects.
The winner - who received her lottery ticket as a gift - will acquire the Spanish master’s 1921 oil-on-canvas still life “Nature morte”, a small abstract representing a table, newspapers and a glass of absinth.
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