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"I saw a news article online and I just happened to be looking for a piece of art for my house and I thought this would be interesting so I just bought a ticket for it," he said.
The artist's grandson, Olivier Picasso, who helped drum up interest in the charity raffle, described the 1914 "Man in the Opera Hat" as a "masterpiece" of museum standard in perfect condition.
Gonano said he didn't know what to do with the picture, but that he wanted to keep it.
"I didn't believe it," he said of the phone call telling him he had won. "I really don't know. I'm going to try and keep it but... I probably wouldn't keep it at my house."
Asked how his friends and family had reacted to the news, he said they were pleased. "We went to dinner last night."
An anonymous donor bought the ganache from a gallery in New York and donated it for the raffle organized by a charity working to save the ancient city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.
The International Association to Save Tyre offered a maximum of 50,000 tickets at 100 euros ($135) each in the months leading up to the tombola in Paris on Wednesday.
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The artist's grandson, Olivier Picasso, who helped drum up interest in the charity raffle, described the 1914 "Man in the Opera Hat" as a "masterpiece" of museum standard in perfect condition.
Gonano said he didn't know what to do with the picture, but that he wanted to keep it.
"I didn't believe it," he said of the phone call telling him he had won. "I really don't know. I'm going to try and keep it but... I probably wouldn't keep it at my house."
Asked how his friends and family had reacted to the news, he said they were pleased. "We went to dinner last night."
An anonymous donor bought the ganache from a gallery in New York and donated it for the raffle organized by a charity working to save the ancient city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.
The International Association to Save Tyre offered a maximum of 50,000 tickets at 100 euros ($135) each in the months leading up to the tombola in Paris on Wednesday.
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