A Posthumous DNA Test for Salvador Dali?
According to a Telegraph online article, a Spanish woman is seeking a posthumous DNA test on the famous 20th century artist Salvador Dali. The woman, identified only as Pilar A, claims that she is Dali’s illegitimate daughter, the product of an affair between the surrealist painter and Pilar’s mother, a maid at a home in the same town where Dali and his family lived.
After DNA tests on medical samples kept in storage after Dali’s death in 1989 proved inconclusive, additional DNA testing was carried out on the samples, but Pilar’s attorney says the results have not been released to her. “If necessary we will ultimately request the exhumation of his corpse,” the lawyer said in the article.
Salvado Dali was born in 1904 and was one of the most famous surrealist painters of the 20th century. His work was considered to be very imaginative and even strikingly bizarre, and his painting skills are said to have been heavily influenced by Renaissance masters. Dali’s paintings were and continue to be purchased and distributed by art connoisseurs from around the world.
Speaking of the great wealth she could stand to inherit if DNA proves Dali is in fact her father, Pilar A has said that her motivation lies not in the monetary compensation she could receive, but rather her “need to discover the true identity of my father.”
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