THE INSIDER: Salvador Dali’s surreal moustache is intact
Embalmer Narcis Bardalet was delighted to see the surrealist’s best-known feature once again
Experts who exhumed the body of Salvador Dali to collect samples for use in a paternity claim have revealed that the enigmatic artist’s trademark moustache still graces his face almost three decades after he died. Narcis Bardalet, the embalmer who tended Dali’s body after his death in 1989 and helped with the exhumation last week, said he was delighted to see the surrealist’s best-known feature once again. "His moustache is still intact, [like clock hands at] 10 past 10, just as he liked it. It’s a miracle," he told the Catalan radio station RAC1. Dali is buried in a crypt beneath the museum he designed for himself in his hometown of Figueres, Catalonia. His remains were disinterred to help settle a long-running paternity claim from a 61-year-old fortune-teller who insists she is his only child. The DNA recovered from the remains will be compared with samples from Maria Pilar Abel, who claims to be the result of a liaison her mother had with Dali in 1955. Abel has been seeking to pr...
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