Tuna Fishing (painting)

Tuna Fishing, subtitled Homage to Meissonier, is an oil on canvas painting completed between 1966 and 1967 by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, measuring about 3 by 4 metres and held today at the Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris. It depicts the almadraba, a traditional Mediterranean method of herding schools of tuna into progressively smaller nets before hauling them ashore and killing them, showing men struggling violently with the fish as a golden knife pierces the catch and the sea turns red with blood. Dalí dedicated the painting to the nineteenth century French battle painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier and called it his most ambitious picture.