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A woman in Italy has suddenly the owner of a Pablo Picasso painting. Claudia Borgogno, 58, the Picasso in a charity raffle. Her son Lorenzo his mother the ticket as a Christmas present. The ticket €100 (about $110). The raffle draw was on Wednesday and Ms Borgogno was the lucky winner. Lorenzo to reporters how he told his mother. He said: "When I and I told her she has won a Picasso painting, she was like: 'Please don't '." He added: "It was maybe the best decision I've made in my life." His mother could not believe she had won and up her amazement in one word - incredible. She said: "I have never anything before".

The Picasso painting is Still Life. It was painted and by the artist in 1921. It shows a newspaper and a wine glass on a wood table. The charity draw place in Paris at the international auction house Christies. The auction house valued the work of art as worth $1.1 million. However, the billionaire art collector who the painting to the charity raffle said it worth at least two or three times more than that. Christies 51,140 tickets for the charity raffle. All of the money it will go to water for villagers in Madagascar and Cameroon. An NGO will help to and repair wells, washing facilities, and toilets in countryside villages.