Salvador Dali's Mind-Blowing 'Tuna Fishing' Masterpiece to be Exhibited at Pompidou Center in Paris for First Time in Decades!

Meeting Dali! has it on very good authority that Salvador Dali's iconic, masterful, almost never-exhibited "Tuna Fishing" of 1967-1968 -- a massive canvas in dazzling psychadelic colors and painted with the exactitude of a Renaissance master -- will likely be the keystone work at the huge Dali retrospective planned to open in November at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, France.

To respect certain confidences, I cannot disclose the source of my information. But it is very reliable and comes from a European authority, collector and Dali confidant.

"Tuna Fishing" is considered by some scholars to be the best and most important painting ever created by Salvador Dali -- even eclipsing the immortal soft watches of Dali's 1931 painting, "The Persistence of Memory," in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

"Tuna Fishing" (collection Paul Ricard, France) was inspired, in part, by the tuna fishing expeditions Dali's father would tell him about when the artist was a boy. These voyages, which continue today, are violent and aggressive, with mass quantities of blood spilling into the Mediterranean, creating disquieting pools of crimson. Dali was strangely galvanized by the orchestrated carnage, and his immense, approx. 10 foot x 12 foot painting, captures the brutality of the "tuny catch," while also synthesizing virtually every key art form: surrealism, realism, pop, op, Cubism, abstrac-expressionism, and more.

It also, as Dali explained it, expresses a finite universe, where everything is compressed into a precise and frenetic space. It took Dali upwards of a year to paint the masterwork, using his moveable easel and employing models of sea gulls, human models, and references to other arists' works, such as Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa."

The Pompidou exhibition will reportedly include many seldom seen paintings, large and small. Speculation has it that "Battle of Tetuan" may be there as well, though that has not be confirmed in any way at this juncture.

Watch this space for more about this important development.