Tuna Fishing (painting)

Tuna Fishing (Homage to Meissonier) was painted by Salvador Dalí in 1966-1967 and is seen by many as one of Dalí's last masterpieces. Filled chaotically with the violent struggle of the men in the picture and the big fish. A golden knife stabs into the fish and the azure- blue sea becomes red with blood.

This painting is a dedication to Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, a 19th-century French painter who specialised in battle scenes.

Salvador Dalí
List of works
Selected
paintings
  • Landscape Near Figueras (1910)
  • Vilabertran (1913)
  • Fiesta in Figueres (1914–16)
  • Port of Cadaqués (Night) (1918–19)
  • The Artist's Father at Llane Beach (1920)
  • The Garden of Llaner (Cadaqués) (1920–21)
  • Cabaret Scene (1922)
  • Cubist Self-Portrait with "La Publicitat" (1923)
  • Self-portrait with L'Humanitie (1923)
  • Portrait of Luis Buñuel (1924)
  • Siphon and Small Bottle of Rum (1924)
  • Portrait of my father (1925)
  • The Basket of Bread (1926)
  • Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood (1927)
  • The Lugubrious Game (1929)
  • The First Days of Spring (1929)
  • The Great Masturbator (1929)
  • The Persistence of Memory (1931)
  • The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934)
  • Morphological Echo (1934–36)
  • Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus (1935)
  • Autumn Cannibalism (1936)
  • Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936)
  • The Burning Giraffe (1937)
  • Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937)
  • Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937)
  • Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)
  • The Sublime Moment (1938)
  • Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939)
  • The Face of War (1940)
  • Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940)
  • Honey is Sweeter than Blood (1941)
  • Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943)
  • Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944)
  • Galarina (1944–45)
  • Basket of Bread (1945)
  • The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946)
  • The Elephants (1948)
  • Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (1949)
  • Leda Atomica (1949)
  • The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949)
  • Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951)
  • Galatea of the Spheres (1952)
  • The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–54)
  • Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954)
  • Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954)
  • The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955)
  • Living Still Life (1956)
  • The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (1958–59)
  • The Ecumenical Council (1959–60)
  • Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963)
  • Tuna Fishing (1966–67)
  • The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–70)
  • La Toile Daligram (1972)
  • The Swallow's Tail (1983)
Other artworks
  • Lobster Telephone (1936)
  • Mae West Lips Sofa (1937)
  • Rainy Taxi (1938)
Writings
  • Un Chien Andalou (1929, co-author)
  • L'Age d'Or (1930, co-author)
  • Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937)
  • Libretto for Bacchanale (1939)
  • The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942, autobiography)
Films
  • Un Chien Andalou (1929)
  • L'Age d'Or (1930)
  • Spellbound (1945, dream sequence)
  • Impressions of Upper Mongolia (1975, narration)
Animated films
  • Destino (1946, completed 2003)
Logos
  • Chupa Chups
Opera
  • Être Dieu (1985)
Costumes
  • costumes for García Lorca's play Mariana Pineda (1927)
Novels
  • Hidden Faces (1944)
Related articles
  • Castle of Púbol
  • Dalí Universe
  • Espace Dalí
  • Dalí Theatre and Museum
  • Salvador Dalí Museum
  • Salvador Dalí (film)
  • Little Ashes
  • Gala Dalí
  • Paranoiac-critical method

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