The most discussed picture in Manhattan cannot be seenexcept in reproduction (opposite). Salvador Dali's Christopher Columbus Discovers America, commissioned by A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, was given a one-day "private" champagne showing at Manhattan's French & Co. attended by a handful of critics and a mob of snobs, then rolled up and stored away to await the opening of Hartford's "Gallery of Modern Art" on Columbus Circle two years hence.
The 14-ft-high picture enraged many, as Dali's works usually do. But it is a major work by one of the ablest, strangest and...
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