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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. The painting is a dedication to Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, a 19th-century French painter who specialised in battle scenes. Dali once stated "Tuna Fishing is the most ambitious picture I have painted because it bears the subtitle Homage to Meissonier."

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  • La Pêche au thon est une huile sur toile de grand format peinte par Salvador Dalí en 1966-1967. La toile sous-titrée hommage à Messonier est considérée comme l'un des derniers chefs-d’œuvre du peintre catalan et achève une série de toiles de grands formats commencée en 1958 avec la Bataille de Tétouan. Elle fut acquise en 1968 par la fondation Paul-Ricard qui l'expose. (fr)
  • 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. The painting is a dedication to Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, a 19th-century French painter who specialised in battle scenes. Dali once stated "Tuna Fishing is the most ambitious picture I have painted because it bears the subtitle Homage to Meissonier." Robert Descharnes wrote that Dali applied all of his "pictorial tendencies" to the painting including elements of surrealism, pointillism, action painting, tachism, pop art, op art, classicism, "quintessential pompierism" [19th century academic painting], and even elements of the psychedelic sub-culture that was just coming into vogue at that time. In later years, Dali often divided his time between Paris and New York, while spending summers in Port Lligat, Spain, where he concentrated on oil paintings. He worked on Tuna Fishing for two consecutive summers there in 1966 and 1967. The French entrepreneur Paul Richard sailed his yacht to Dali's studio in Port Lligat with the intention of buying a couple of watercolors from the artist however, he wound up purchasing the recently completed monumental oil painting for $280.000.00 [= > $2,000,000.00 in 2021]. It was later exhibited at the Hôtel Meurice in Paris in the winter of 1967, as part of his Homage to Meissonier, an exhibition Dali curated celebrating the work of several late 19th century Salon painters. After the Second World War, Dali developed an interest in contemporary scientific research that often found expression in his later work. References to nuclear physics, the work of Crick and Watson on deoxyribonucleic acid, Dennis Gabor and holography, Buckminster Fuller and geodesic domes, among many others appeared in his paintings and his writings. In Tuna Fishing, Dali wanted to include a theory on the limitations of the universe by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, with stories about tuna fishing his father had told him as a boy, among other ideas for the painting. "This epic topic was related to me by my father who, although a notary in Figueras in Catalonia, possessed a narrative gift worthy of Homer. He had shown me in his desk, at the same time, an engraving by Swedish 'pompier' artist depicting tuna-fishing, which I also used in working out this oil. But, finally I decided on this subject, which had tempted me all my life, after having read in Teilhard de Chardin that, according to him, the universe and the cosmos were probably limited, which has been confirmed by the latest scientific discoveries. I realized then that is precisely this limitation, contraction, and limit to the cosmos and the universe which makes energy possible. Therefore, the protons, anti-protons, photons, pi-mesons, neutrons, all the elementary particles only possess this formidable hyperaesthetic energy because of these same limits and contractions of the universe. This, in a certain way, relieves us of the terrible anguish stemming from Pascal's theory that human beings were insignificant beside the cosmos, and brings us back to the idea that all the cosmos and all the universe converge in one point, which, in the present case, is the Tuna-Fishing. This accounts for the terrifying energy in this picture! Because all these fish, all those tuna, and the human beings in the act of killing them, personify the limited universe. In other words, since the Dalinian cosmos is limited to the space in the tuna-fishing, all the elements acquire from it the maximum of hyperaesthetic energy." Salvador Dalí (en)
  • «Ловля тунца» — картина испанского художника Сальвадора Дали, написанная в 1966—67 годах. Находится в коллекции Фонда Поля Ришара во Франции на острове Бендор. На картине видно, как Дали использует различные стили, исследованные им ранее: сюрреализм, пуантилизм, action painting, ташизм, поп-арт, оптическое и психоделическое искусство. Работа посвящена Жану Месонье, французскому живописцу XIX века. (ru)
  • «Ловля тунця» — картина іспанського художника Сальвадора Далі, написана у 1966—1967 роках. Зберігається у колекції Фонду Поля Рікара у Франції на острові Бендор. В композиції картини Далі синтезує свої попередні стильові відкриття: тут поєднані в одному цілому сюрреалізм, «квінтесенція жанрового живопису», пуантилізм, , ташизм, геометрична абстракція, поп-арт, оп-арт, психоделічне мистецтво. Картина має підзаголовок «Присвята Менсоньє», вона присвячена французькому живописцю XIX ст. , який спеціалізувався на зображенні батальних сцен. (uk)
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  • La Pêche au thon est une huile sur toile de grand format peinte par Salvador Dalí en 1966-1967. La toile sous-titrée hommage à Messonier est considérée comme l'un des derniers chefs-d’œuvre du peintre catalan et achève une série de toiles de grands formats commencée en 1958 avec la Bataille de Tétouan. Elle fut acquise en 1968 par la fondation Paul-Ricard qui l'expose. (fr)
  • «Ловля тунца» — картина испанского художника Сальвадора Дали, написанная в 1966—67 годах. Находится в коллекции Фонда Поля Ришара во Франции на острове Бендор. На картине видно, как Дали использует различные стили, исследованные им ранее: сюрреализм, пуантилизм, action painting, ташизм, поп-арт, оптическое и психоделическое искусство. Работа посвящена Жану Месонье, французскому живописцу XIX века. (ru)
  • «Ловля тунця» — картина іспанського художника Сальвадора Далі, написана у 1966—1967 роках. Зберігається у колекції Фонду Поля Рікара у Франції на острові Бендор. В композиції картини Далі синтезує свої попередні стильові відкриття: тут поєднані в одному цілому сюрреалізм, «квінтесенція жанрового живопису», пуантилізм, , ташизм, геометрична абстракція, поп-арт, оп-арт, психоделічне мистецтво. Картина має підзаголовок «Присвята Менсоньє», вона присвячена французькому живописцю XIX ст. , який спеціалізувався на зображенні батальних сцен. (uk)
  • 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. The painting is a dedication to Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, a 19th-century French painter who specialised in battle scenes. Dali once stated "Tuna Fishing is the most ambitious picture I have painted because it bears the subtitle Homage to Meissonier." (en)
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  • Tuna Fishing (painting) (en)
  • Ловля тунца (ru)
  • Ловля тунця (картина) (uk)
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