A court ordered DNA test to confirm Salvador Dalí as the father of a seer

A court ordered a genetic test to determine if the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí was the father of Pilar Abel, a fortune teller who claimed to be his daughter.

A cardboard box containing a piece of the artist's right leg, three teeth, four nails, and a lock of hair traveled 700 kilometers across Spain. The package moved from the painter's grave in Figueres, Girona, to a laboratory in Las Rozas managed by geneticist Antonio Alonso.

This scientific procedure aimed to verify the lineage of Abel. The transport of the remains resembled the surrealist imagery often found in the work of Dalí.