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
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List of works
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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)
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Other artworks |
- Lobster Telephone (1936)
- Mae West Lips Sofa (1937)
- Rainy Taxi (1938)
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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)
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Films |
- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- L'Age d'Or (1930)
- Spellbound (1945, dream sequence)
- Impressions of Upper Mongolia (1975, narration)
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Animated films |
- Destino (1946, completed 2003)
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Logos |
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Opera |
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Costumes |
- costumes for García Lorca's play Mariana Pineda (1927)
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Novels |
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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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