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Agence France-Presse

Salvador Dali’s remains were set to be exhumed on Thursday from his Spanish hometown in an effort to test a fortune-teller’s claims the renowned surrealist is her father.
The artist’s body is buried in the elaborate museum of his work, which Dali designed himself in the northeastern Spanish town of Figueres, where he was born more than 110 years ago.
Pilar Abel, a 61-year-old who long worked as a psychic in Catalonia, has claimed mother had a relationship with the artist when she worked in Port Lligat, a small fishing hamlet where the painter lived for years.
If Abel is confirmed as the only child of Dali, she could be entitled to part of the huge fortune and heritage of one of the most celebrated and prolific painters of the 20th century.
Digging up the dead: bones of surrealist artist Salvador Dali exhumed for a paternity test

The Salvador Dali Foundation had tried to fight off the exhumation with an appeal, but there was not enough time for all parties to present their case, a court spokesman said.
Barring some “administrative or logistical surprise”, the exhumation will go ahead, he said.
Authorities will begin removing the one-tonne slab covering the tomb of the eccentric artist after visitors have cleared out for the day from the Dali Theatre-Museum.
Experts will take DNA samples in the form of bone or tooth fragments directly from the grave where Dali was buried and they will then be sent to Madrid to undergo the necessary tests. The artist died in 1989 with no known child heirs.
Abel has already provided a saliva sample for comparison, with results expected within a matter of weeks, the woman’s lawyer Enrique Blanquez said.
The museum, a major tourist site that drew more than 1.1 million visitors last year, will be covered in some places with cloth to prevent drones from capturing images of the exhumation.
In an interview with AFP last month, just days after a court ordered the exhumation, Abel said her grandmother first told her she was Dali’s daughter when she was seven or eight years old, and her mother admitted it much later.
Abel is from the city of Figueres, like Dali, and has said she would often see him in the streets.
“We wouldn’t say anything, we would just look at each other. But a glance is worth a thousand words,” she said.
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Notoriously eccentric, Dali’s life was marked as much by the genius of his work as by his own extravagances.
A question has always hung over his sexuality, with some claiming he was a closet homosexual who preferred to watch others having sex rather than taking part.
But according to Blanquez, his affair was “known in the village, there are people who have testified before a notary”.
Born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres to a bourgeois family – Dali’s father was a legal clerk – he developed an interest in painting from an early age.
In 1922 he began studying at the Fine Arts Academy in Madrid, where, despite being expelled twice, he developed his first avant-garde artistic ideas in association with poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the filmmaker Luis Bunuel.
Soon he left for Paris to join the surrealist movement, giving the school his own personal twist and rocketing to fame with works such as The Great Masturbator.
Returning to Catalonia after 12 years, he invited French poet Paul Eluard and his Russian wife Elena Ivanovna Diakonova to Cadaques.
It was love at first sight between Dali and the woman to whom he gave the pet name Gala. She became his muse and remained at his side for the rest of her life and died in 1982. The couple never had children.


Salvador Dali’s remains to be exhumed as fortune-teller seeks to prove surrealist artist is her father

A child touches Salvador Dali's tombstone. Photo: AFP

epa06051541 (FILE) - A June 1966 pictures shows Spanish artist Salvador Dali at his residence in Cadaques, Catalonia, northeastern Spain. The remains of Dali will be exhumated by order of a judge in order to obtain samples to determine the paternity of Pilar Abel, who has brought a paternity suit as his daughter on 26 June 2017. Dali died in Figueres, Spain on 23 January 1989. EPA/LAMA ONE TIME USE ONLY EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES/NO ARCHIVES

Visitors walk around Salvador Dali's tomb inside the Teatre-Museu Dali (Theatre-Museum Dali) in Figueras on July 18, 2017 ahead of the exhumation of the artist's remains. The remains of the world-famous surrealist, who is buried in his museum in Figueras, in northeastern Spain, were ordered exhumed after a woman who claims to be his daughter filed a paternity claim. / AFP PHOTO / LLUIS GENE

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Salvador Dali’s remains to be exhumed as fortune-teller seeks to prove surrealist artist is her father

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}If confirmed as his only child, she could be entitled to part of the huge fortune and heritage

If confirmed as his only child, she could be entitled to part of the huge fortune and heritage