One of the charity draw organisers tells BBC Radio 4's Front Row about calling the painting's new owner.
"How do I know this isn't a prank?" the winner asked when he answered a video call from Christie's auction house in Paris.
A Parisian man could not believe his luck on Tuesday when he found out he had won a Pablo Picasso painting worth US$1 million with a US$117 raffle ticket. “How do I check that it’s not a hoax?” said Ari Hodara, 58, after organisers called him following the draw at Christie’s auction house in the French capital. Hodara described himself as an art amateur fond of Picasso and said he bought his ticket over the weekend after finding out about the charity raffle by chance during a meal in a...