Will the Pompidou Exhibition Reel in 'Tuna Fishing'?

A big, big question on the minds of Dali lovers is whether the big Salvador Dali retrospective planned to begin in November at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, France, will include Dali's breathtaking painting, "Tuna Fishing," of 1967-'68.

No word on this yet, though I've been trying to gently harangue the right sources, every now and then, to see if this magnificent, rarely displayed canvas will find itself swimming in Dalinian waters at the prestigious Parisian site. That show is then scheduled to move to Madrid in 2013.

My long-time friend and ardent Dali aficionado and collector, Nigel Simmins of England, has long cited "Tuna Fishing" as his favorite Dali work. He was, among other things, greatly taken by the golden dagger in the middle of the picture, which, he says, glows practically as if there's a light switch inside of it!

If "Tuna Fishing" makes it to the Pompidou, your genial Meeting Dali blogger will be on a jet plane headed across the big pond, before you can say "Santiago El Grande" -- my personal Dali favorite, and one I finally got to see in Atlanta, Georgia's High Museum of Art, thanks primarily to Dr. Elliott King. His curatorial work on that show was nothing short of genius.

Viva Dali!

(Dali images are copyright Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali, Figueres, Spain, and used her for non-commercial journalistic purposes only.)