New York Times<\/a><\/em>, tarot reader Pilar Abel claims that her mother had an affair with the painter in the late 1950s. Antonia Mart\u00ednez de Haro was a nanny in the same town in which Dal\u00ed owned a waterfront home with his wife, whom he only visited with her written permission. As the couple had no children, Dal\u00ed\u2019s fortune was left to the state of Spain; however, if a paternity test proves him to be Abel\u2019s father, she could have the right to a portion of that estate, as well as to his last name.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Mart\u00ednez had supposedly admitted to the affair but now has Alzheimer\u2019s and cannot lucidly give testimony to such. Abel tried to get proof several years ago with a paternity test that was conducted using feeding tubes from Dal\u00ed\u2019s hospital stay, but the test was inconclusive.<\/p>\n
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Now, access to his DNA is the only true way to confirm this paternity claim. Dal\u00ed was buried in a crypt under the museum\/theater in the town of Figueres. Due to court orders, the museum has agreed to the unearthing, which will take place today.<\/p>\n
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Dal\u00ed is best known for his surrealist, and notably symbolic works, most significantly The Persistence of Memory<\/em>, a painting depicting melting clocks. Soon, he may also be known as a father.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
photo \/\/\u00a0Portrait of\u00a0Salvador Dal\u00ed in Paris\u00a0from the\u00a0Carl Van Vechten photograph collection (Library of Congress)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish painter Salvador Dal\u00ed was always the center of attention and now, 28 years after his death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}