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A30 PEOPLE & ARTS
Tuesday 27 June 2017
Dali’s bones to be exhumed in Spain for paternity test

By ARITZ PARRA museum in the northeast-
The Associated Press ern town of Figueres.
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish Pilar Abel, a tarot-card
judge on Monday ordered reader from the nearby
the remains of artist Salva- city of Girona who was
dor Dali to be exhumed to born in 1956, says she is the
settle a paternity suit, de- offspring of an affair be-
spite opposition from the tween Dali and her mother,
state-run foundation that Antonia.
manages the artist’s es- At the time of the alleged
tate. affair, Dali was married
Dali, considered one of the to his muse, Gala, who
fathers of surrealist art, died died seven years before
in 1989 and is buried in his the painter. Gala had a

In this May 21, 1973 file photo, Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali, presents his first Chrono-
Hologram in Paris, France.
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daughter from an earlier the Ministry of Finance, as rights over the artist’s work
marriage but the couple the trustee of Dali’s estate, and property, which ac-
had no children of their and the Gala Dali Founda- cording to regional laws
own. Upon his death, at tion that was created to could amount to 25 per-
age 84, Dali bestowed his administer it. cent of all of the estate.
estate to the Spanish state. “What she wants is to have The Gala Dali Foundation
On Monday, a Madrid a result of the tests with full will appeal Monday’s de-
court statement said that guarantee in order to fin- cision, foundation spokes-
tests with DNA from Dali’s ish with this as soon as pos- woman Imma Parada said
embalmed body were sible,” in an e-mailed statement.
necessary because there Abel’s lawyer Enrique Blan- But according to Blanquez,
were no other existing bio- quez told The Associated the appeal could not im-
logical remains with which Press. mediately stop the exhum-
to make a genetic com- If there’s a match, Abel ing of Dali’s remains.
parison. could use Dali as her sur- The first hearing in the case
Abel’s court litigation start- name and pursue further is scheduled for Sept. 18,
ed in 2015 when she sued legal action to claim her the lawyer said.q
JK Rowling marks 20 years since Harry Potter appeared

LONDON (AP) — Wizarding Thank you.” book, one for each house
legend Harry Potter’s tale Rowling’s publisher, at Hogwarts School of
has turned 20. Bloomsbury, will release Witchcraft & Wizardry, in
Author J.K. Rowling’s first four new editions of the honor of the anniversary.q
novel, Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone, was
published in Britain on June
26, 1997. Since then, it has
sold more than 450 mil-
lion copies worldwide and
has been translated into
79 languages. The books’
magical world has inspired
multiple films, spinoffs,
memorabilia and amuse-
ment park attractions.
The White Elephant Cafe,
the Edinburgh spot where
Rowling wrote the first
book, has become an in- In this Monday, May 20, 2013 file photo, Sotheby’s director of
ternational tourist destina- the department of printed books and manuscripts Dr Philip Err-
tion. “20 years ago today ington poses for photographers by holding a first edition copy
a world that I had lived in of the first Harry Potter book “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
alone was suddenly open Stone” containing annotations and illustrations by author J.K.
to others,” Rowling tweet- Rowling on top of a stack of other annotated first edition books
ed. “It’s been wonderful. featuring at auction, at the auction house’s premises in London.
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