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Dali’s moustache ‘intact at 10 past 10’, exhumation finds
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Salvador Dalí’s moustache is intact in the “10 past 10” position, the surrealist painter’s foundation has said, a day after his body was exhumed.
“It was like a miracle,” said Narcis Bardalet, who was in charge of embalming Dalí’s body 28 years ago, adding that the hair was also intact.
The body was exhumed in the north-eastern Spanish city of Figueres to settle a paternity case.
A woman says her mother had an affair with the world-famous artist.
If María Pilar Abel Martínez is proved right, she could assume part of Dalí’s estate, currently owned by the Spanish state.
‘A moving moment’
Dalí’s body was exhumed from a crypt in a museum dedicated to his life and work on Thursday evening.
“When I took off the silk handkerchief, I was very emotional,” Mr Bardalet told RAC1 radio station on Friday morning.
“I was eager to see him and I was absolutely stunned. It was like a miracle… his moustache appeared at 10 past 10 exactly and his hair was intact,” he added.
Lluís Peñuelas, the secretary of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, said that it was “a moving moment”.
DNA samples have been taken from the artist’s teeth, bones and nails in a four-hour operation, the officials say.
It may take weeks before the results of the tests are known.
The exhumation went ahead following a court order on behalf of Ms Martínez.
This was despite the objections of the local authorities and the Dalí Foundation, both of which said that not enough notice had been given.
Ms Martínez, a tarot card reader who was born in 1956, says her mother had an affair with Dalí in the year before her birth.
Her mother, Antonia, had worked for a family that spent time in Cadaqués, near the painter’s home.
Ms Martínez’s action is against the Spanish state, to which Dalí left his estate.
Source: bbc.com
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