The remains of a man buried in 1989 were exhumed in Spain. famous painter and the sculptor, representative of surrealism Salvador Dali, to conduct a genetic examination and establish a relationship with a woman who claims to be his daughter.
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Note that the artist’s body, which was embalmed after death, rested in the city of Figueres in Catalonia in the Dali Theater-Museum. Recently, forensic experts lifted a one and a half ton tombstone from the painter’s grave and extracted samples, which most likely included teeth, nails and bone marrow.
Dali's DNA samples will be sent to a forensic laboratory in Madrid, where they will first be determined in what condition they are, since the embalming process could damage genetic information.
The DNA test, which will be carried out by experts, will have to establish signs of kinship between the artist and Maria Pilar Abel Martinez, who calls herself Dali’s illegitimate daughter and has been trying to prove this since 2007.
Martinez, a tarot card reader, was born in 1956 in Girona, near Figueres. She claims that her mother Antonia had an affair with Salvador Dali a year before she was born. Antonia worked as a housekeeper for the Dali family.
Maria Pilar Abel Martinez
Note that the decision to exhume the body of Salvador Dali was made by the court at the end of June. However, the Salvador Dali Foundation, which manages the estate of the artist, who is believed to have had no children, opposed the exhumation.
By the way, Dali was married to Elena Dyakonova (Gala) for 50 years married life with whom he had no children.
Dali and his muse wife
As his biographers note, Salvador had complex sexual preferences. The couple was in an open relationship and often held orgies in their home. Dali, however, preferred observation to participation.
According to the painter's biographer Ian Gibson, "Dali always boasted that he was impotent and that one had to be impotent to become a great artist."
Illegitimate daughter Dali with his mother, 2015
If the examination confirms family connection Maria Pilar Abel Martinez and the artist, she will be able to bear the name Dali, as well as obtain rights to the artist’s works. Note that the artist’s paintings are valued at 325 million euros.
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Maria Pilar Abel Martinez has been trying for ten years to prove that she is the artist's biological daughter. This summer the story reached its climax. The court ordered the exhumation of the remains and a DNA test. The results were negative.
Who is Pilar Abel
According to the newspaper El Pais, Maria Pilar Abel Martinez is a 61-year-old clairvoyant from Girona, Spain. For more than eight years she acted as a fortune teller in a program on local television. The town of Girona is just an hour's drive from Figueres, where Salvador Dali was born and raised.
According to Abel Martinez, she first heard that Dali was her father from her grandmother. One day she told her: “I know that you are not the daughter of my son and that you are the daughter of a great artist, but I love you just as much.” In addition, Abel claimed that when her grandmother scolded her, she often said: “You are strange, just like your father.”
In the 50s, according to Abel, her mother worked as a maid in Port Lligat. Nearby, the Dali family had a house, which later became the artist’s museum. Abel claims that Antonia worked for Dali’s friends, whom the artist often visited.
Pilar Abel was born on February 1, 1956. Even before this, the mother left the village and married another man. However, according to Abel, she was born precisely after the secret relationship between the artist and her mother Antonia in 1955.
At that time, Salvador Dali had already been living in a civil marriage with his wife for two decades. future wife Gala (nee Elena Dyakonova). Their official wedding took place only in 1958. The couple had no children.
Exchange of claims
Salvador Dalí died in Figueres in 1989 at the age of 84. The artist bequeathed to bury himself so that people could walk on his grave. That is why Dali’s remains were walled up under the floor of his theater-museum in Figueres.
However, the artist left no biological samples on which to conduct analysis. In 2007, Pilar already tried to conduct a DNA study to establish paternity. Then the material for examination was the remains of skin and hair, which were preserved in plaster. death mask Dali.
This mask was provided by Salvador Dali's friend and biographer Robert Descharnes. But, as Abel states, she never received these tests, because their transfer was blocked by the Dali Foundation, which controls and manages the master’s entire inheritance.
However, back in 2008, in an interview with the Spanish agency EFE, Desharnes' son Nicolas said that the doctor who conducted the paternity test told him that the test result was negative.
In 2015, Abel filed a lawsuit against the Spanish Ministry of Finance and the Gala and Salvador Dali Foundation. On June 26, 2017, a Madrid court ordered the exhumation of the artist's body.
And again a fiasco
If the test results were positive, Pilar Abel could claim to bear the surname of the great painter. Also, a woman could claim a quarter of Dali’s inheritance and copyrights to his works.
During his life, the artist, who is considered one of the most famous representatives surrealism, created over a hundred works. The most expensive on this moment his painting is a portrait of Paul Eluard. This work was sold at Sotheby's for $22 million in 2011.
On July 20, Dali's remains were exhumed. For analysis, samples of hair, nails, teeth were taken, and two long bones were also extracted. However, a DNA test showed that Pilar Abel is not the painter’s daughter. The woman herself intends to challenge this decision. She noted that she “doesn’t trust the storage network” for DNA samples.
At the same time, at a meeting on September 18, the Madrid court confirmed the results of the genetic examination. And the Spanish prosecutor's office petitioned to recover legal costs from Pilar Abel. The prosecution stated that the woman’s behavior was “capricious and unreasonable,” as well as the doubts she expressed to the Institute of Toxicology about the error of the DNA test results.
The prosecutor's office will consider the request next week. The verdict will be announced then.
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MADRID, July 20 - RIA Novosti, Elena Shesternina. The body of Salvador Dali will be exhumed on Thursday - according to a court decision that satisfied the claim of a “soothsayer” who claims that the great surrealist artist is her blood father, the mayor’s office of Figueres (Girona province, autonomous community of Catalonia) told RIA Novosti.
Pilar Abel Martinez was born on February 1, 1956 in the Catalan city of Figueres. Allegedly, her mother had a secret relationship with the artist in Port Ligat (province of Girona), where she worked in the house of one of the local families. In 1955, the mother moved to Castellon de Empurias, got married here and after some time had a daughter. According to Pilar, she first heard that she was Dali’s illegitimate daughter from her grandmother, the mother of her official father. “I know that you are not my son’s daughter, you are from a great artist, but I still love you,” said the grandmother, adding that she is “as strange as her father (meaning Dali - ed.)” states the "clairvoyant".
In 2015, Pilar Abel filed her first paternity suit. In June 2017, the court finally sided with the “clairvoyant.” If the examination really proves that the great surrealist is her biological father, Pilar will be able to claim his name and copyright. Abel is in such dire straits financial condition, she did not have the funds to pay her previous lawyer.
Dali's grave is located in the Salvador Dali Theater-Museum, created by him in Figueres in 1983. He bequeathed to be buried in such a way that people could walk on the grave, so the body was walled up in the floor of one of the rooms of the theater-museum. Dali died on January 23, 1989 at the age of 85.
Figueres' leadership has tried to delay the exhumation - last week the city's mayor, Marta Felip, said that "even with all the desire to comply with the court decision, it is almost impossible to do this on July 20" and that it is "not such a simple thing."
“Those who know the features of this building and the crypt understand: in order to open the coffin, repair work must be carried out,” said the mayor. She recalled that the artist rests in a crypt under a stone slab that weighs a ton. In addition, the building is a heritage building of National Cultural Interest. Therefore, it is necessary to request permission to carry out the work.
The court did not listen to the opinion of the city leadership. "The mayor's office asked the court for more time because we're talking about about large renovation works that required obtaining permission, but the court refused, assuring that all guarantees would be respected and that city hall architects would be present during the exhumation process to monitor the progress of the work. Indeed, it will be necessary to open the crypt and lift the tombstone. It’s really difficult,” sources at the mayor’s office told RIA Novosti.
It was initially assumed that the exhumation process would begin at 9 am (10.00 Moscow time) on Thursday, but the court agreed to postpone the start of work to the evening, after the museum was closed to the public. That is, work will begin at 20.00 pm local time (21.00 Moscow time) and should be completed by Friday morning. “Work on raising the tombstone will begin in the evening, exhumation will be carried out at night and everything necessary to collect tests will be done; the work should be completed by Friday morning. A forensic medical examination group and representatives of the court will participate in this process,” the RIA Novosti interlocutor said.
It is not known when the results of the DNA analysis may become known.
By Friday morning, Dali's body will be in its original place. “They will finally leave him alone, after so many years, the poor man. He is probably laughing very hard at all this,” said a representative of the city authorities.
For eight years, Pilar Abel Martinez, under the pseudonym "Jasmine", hosted a program on local television in Girona - she gave "predictions about the future" to viewers.
The first scandal surrounding this woman broke out several years ago in connection with the lawsuit that she filed in 2005 against the journalist and writer Javier Cercas, the author of one of the most famous books of modern times. spanish literature"Soldiers of Salamis" She believes that she became the prototype of the book’s heroine, Conchi, and that the writer damaged her honor and dignity, since the heroine is “ignorant, stupid, hypocritical, superficial.” Pilar demanded compensation in the amount of 700 thousand euros. In 2009, the court finally refused to satisfy this claim, since Javier Cercas did not even know the “seer.”
If the DNA of the “clairvoyant” and Dali match, then Abel will have the right to his surname and copyright, as well as 25% of his inheritance. According to some estimates, we are talking about an amount of 300 million euros.
The woman who tried to prove that her father was the famous painter Salvador Dali is not his daughter. This is evidenced by the results of a DNA test carried out after the exhumation of the artist’s remains, the newspaper La Vanguardia reports.
Previously, Pilar Abel claimed the Dali surname and part of the inheritance. However, a comparison of her DNA with a sample extracted from the surrealist's embalmed body showed that there is no relationship between them. If a DNA test were to confirm Abel's claims of kinship, she could claim both his surname and copyright.
In mid-July, the artist’s remains were exhumed in Spain: in the room of the theater-museum in the city of Figueres, a one and a half ton slab was lifted and the coffin was pulled out.
The exhumation was carried out with a minimum number of people, only representatives of the court, museum and forensic experts were present. Forensic experts reported that the process took much less time than originally expected. Both the coffin and the artist’s body were in good condition.
Pilar Abel considers herself a fortune teller and makes a living from it. For several years, she hosted a program on local television in which she used tarot cards to predict the future for callers.
The first scandal surrounding this woman broke out several years ago in connection with the lawsuit that she filed in 2005 against the journalist and writer Javier Cercas, the author of one of the most famous books of modern Spanish literature, “Soldiers of Salamis.”
Abel insisted that she was the inspiration for the heroine of Conchi's book and that the writer had damaged her honor and dignity by describing the heroine as "ignorant, stupid, hypocritical, superficial." Pilar demanded compensation in the amount of 700 thousand euros. In 2009, the court finally refused to satisfy this claim, since Javier Cercas did not even know the “seer.”
At the same time, Abel began to claim that her mother Antonia Martinez de Haro had an affair with the artist in the mid-1950s when she worked at his friends' house in Cadaques. At this time, Dali lived there with his wife and muse Gala. Having become pregnant at 25, Antonia moved to Castellon de Empurias and married a 29-year-old man named Juan. He became the official father of Abel.
In 1982, Salvador Dali, suffering from Parkinson's disease, fell into deep depression due to the death of his wife Gala. Two years later, paralyzed, he found himself at the center of a castle fire in Pubol. Until this moment, he hoped to be buried next to Gala and prepared a place for himself in the crypt, but after the fire he moved to the theater-museum in the city of Figueres.
In 1989, he died of heart failure at the age of 85 and was buried on the museum grounds. According to his last will, the grave was arranged so that people could walk on it.
The body of painter Salvador Dali was exhumed on the evening of July 20 to take a DNA sample to settle a paternity case.
Samples for the test were taken from the artist's teeth, bones and nails during a four-hour operation. The exhumation took place as a result of a court order - the request of Maria Pilar Abel Martinez was satisfied, who claims that her mother had an affair with the artist, and she herself is his daughter.
If she turns out to be right, she will be able to lay claim to Dali's inheritance, currently owned by the Spanish state.
The surrealist artist, who died in 1989 aged 85, was buried in a crypt at a museum dedicated to his life and work in Figueres, north-east Spain.
On Thursday evening, shortly before the exhumation, a crowd gathered outside the museum to watch police escort experts into the building. As soon as the last visitors of the day left the museum, the 1.5-ton stone slab that lies over Dalí's grave was lifted so that experts could reach the artist's body.
Experts who exhumed Salvador Dali's body to take samples reported that the mustache mysterious artist still adorn his face almost three decades after his death.
Narcisse Bardalet, an embalmer who cared for Dalí's body after his death in 1989 and helped with the exhumation process, said he was delighted to see the surrealist's most recognizable feature again.
The exhumation took place despite the objections of local authorities and the Dali Foundation, who argued that there were insufficient reasons for this.
Maria Pilar Abel Martinez, a tarot card reader born in 1956, says her mother Antonia had an affair with Dalí for a year before Abel was born. Her mother worked for a family who spent time in Cadaques, not far from the artist's home.
Last month, a Madrid judge ordered a settlement brought by the woman. The lawsuit is being disputed by the Dalí Foundation, which manages the estate of the artist, who had no children.
Pilar Abel says her mother and paternal grandmother told her early age that Dali was her real father. But the claim has surprised many, including Ian Gibson, Dalí's Irish biographer, who believes it is simply impossible. “Dali always boasted that he was impotent and that you had to be impotent to become a great artist,” the biographer said. 
Pilar Abel has been trying to prove her origins for the last 10 years and says the physical resemblance to the surrealist artist is so strong that "the only thing missing is a mustache."
In 2007, she was allowed to try to extract DNA from traces of skin and hair found on Dali's funeral mask. However, the results were inconclusive. Another attempt at DNA testing was made later that year, using material provided by the artist's friend and biographer Robert Descharnes.
Although Abel claimed that she never received the results of the second test, in 2008 Desharnes' son Nicolas told the Spanish news agency Efe that he learned from the doctor who carried out the tests that they were negative.
results last test DNA is expected in one to two months. After testing the samples, they will be returned to Dali's grave.
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