- Cat. no. P
- 242
Les premiers jours du printemps (The First Days of Spring)

Cat. no. P 242
The First Days of Spring
1929
Description
- Date:
- 1929
- Technique:
- Oil and collage on wood panel
- Dimensions:
- 49.5 x 64 cm
- Signature:
- Unsigned and undated
- Location:
- The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg (Florida)
- Galerie André Weil, Paris
- E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)
- 1929, París, Galerie Goemans, Dalí, 20-11-1929 - 5-12-1929, cat. no. 7
- 1930, París, Galerie Goemans, Exposition de collages, March 1930, cat. no. 5
- 1952, Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Phantastische Kunst des XX.Jahrhunderts, 30-8-1952 - 5-10-1952, cat. no. 61
- 1965, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, 18-12-1965 - 13-3-1966, cat. no. 246
- 1994, London, Hayward Gallery, Salvador Dalí: the early years, 3-3-1994 - 30-5-1994, cat. no. 110
- 1998, Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 21-10-1998 - 31-1-1999, cat. no. 4
- 1999, St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, 5-3-1999 - 24-5-1999, cat. no. 4
- 1999, Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Dali exhibition 1999, 12-6-1999 - 20-8-1999, cat. no. 15
- 2000, St. Petersburg, Florida, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Masterpieces of surrealism, 26-1-2000 - 16-4-2000, cat. no. 22
- 2004, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Dalí, 12-9-2004 - 16-1-2005, cat. no. 64
- 2006, Tokio, Ueno Royal Museum, Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, 23-9-2006 - 4-1-2007, cat. no. 13
- 2007, London, Tate Modern, Dalí & Film, 1-6-2007 - 9-9-2007, il. 7
- 2009, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Salvador Dalí : liquid desire, 13-6-2009 - 4-10-2009, no reference
- 2012, París, Centre Pompidou, Dalí, 21-11-2012 - 25-3-2013, p. 118
- 2013, Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Dalí. Todas las sugestiones poéticas y todas las posibilidades plásticas, 27-4-2013 - 2-9-2013, p. 118
- Louis Aragon, La Peinture au défi, Librairie José Corti, Paris, 1930, il. XXIII
- Guillermo de Torre, Itinerario de la nueva pintura española, [S.n.], Montevideo, 1931, p. 29
- Salvador Dalí, The IMS Press, Cleveland [Ohio], 1954, p. 49
- A. Reynolds Morse, Michel Tapié, Dalí: a study of his life and work, New York graphic Society, Greenwich [Connecticut], 1958, p. 24
- Salvador Dalí, 1910-1965, The Foundation for Modern Art, New York, 1965, p. 34
- Max. Gérard, Dalí de Draeger, Blume, Barcelona, 1968, il. 82 (detail)
- Dali par Dali, Draeger, [París], 1970, p. 106-107 (detail)
- Ninety-three oils by Salvador Dalí : 1917-1970, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1973, p. 148 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí ... a panorama of his art, The Salvador Dalí Museum, Cleveland, 1974, p. 50, p. 148
- Jacques Dopagne, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1974, il. 15 (detail), il. 16
- Max. Gérard, Dalí... Dalí... Dalí..., Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974, il. 40
- Le Surréalisme, XXe siècle, Paris, 1975, p. [30]
- Luis Romero, Todo Dalí en un rostro, Blume, Madrid, Barcelona, 1975, p. 82 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí, René Passeron, Salvador Dalí, Filipacchi, Paris, 1978, p. 34
- Salvador Dalí, selected works, Filipacchi, New York, 1979, p. 34
- Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1979, p. 126
- Hommage à Dalí, Vilo, Paris, 1980, p. 54, p. 59
- Salvador Dalí, The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, il. I
- Josep Pla, Salvador Dalí (il.), Obres de museu, DASA, Figueres, 1981, p. 26
- Francisco Calvo Serraller, "Dalí "Un fuera borda girando sin parar"", El País, 13/12/1981, Madrid, cover (2 details), p. 20 (detail)
- Dawn Ades, Dalí and surrealism, Harper & Row, New York, 1982, p. 66
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Newness Books, Feltham [Middlesex], 1983, p. 15
- Conroy Maddox, Dalí, Benedick Taschen, Köln, 1983, p. 15 (detail)
- Francesc Miralles, Història de l'art català, Edicions 62, Barcelona, 1983, p. 93
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1983, il. 36
- Salvador Dalí Domenech, "Dalí: esplendor y ocaso [coberta]", Tele Radio, 15/04/1983, Madrid, p. 18-19
- Rafael Santos Torroella, La Miel es más dulce que la sangre : las épocas lorquiana y freudiana de Salvador Dalí, Seix-Barral, Barcelona, 1984, p. 184
- Sarane Alexandrian, Dalí, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1985, il. 15 (detail), il. 16
- Paul Moorhouse, Dalí, Magna Books, Wigston [Anglaterra], 1990, p. 36-37
- Dalí: the Salvador Dalí museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston. Toronto. London, 1991, il. 34
- Luis Romero, PsicoDálico Dalí, Mediterranea, Barcelona, 1991, p. 53 (detail)
- Alessandr Rogin, [Salvador Dalí : el mite i la realitat], Republica, Moscou, 1992, p. 39
- A. Reynolds Morse, Dali's animal crackers, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1993, p. 30 (2 details), p. 103 (detail)
- Mike Venezia, Salvador Dalí, Children Press, Chicago, 1993, p. 11
- Dalí, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1994, il. 27
- Salvador Dalí: the early years, South Bank Centre, [London], 1994, cover, p. 152 (detail), p. 181
- Salvador Dalí, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994, il. 27
- Jessica Hodge, Salvador Dali, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1994, p. 46-47
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 149
- Christopher Green, The European avant-gardes : art in France and Western Europe 1904-c.1945, Zwemmer, London, 1995, p. 107
- David Carter, Salvador Dalí, Chelsea House, New York - Philadelphia, 1995, p. 62
- Christopher Masters, Dalí, Phaidon, London, 1996, p. 57
- Haim Finkelstein, Salvador Dalí's art and writing, 1927-1942 : the metamorphoses of Narcissus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, p. 92
- Kenneth Wach, Salvador Dalí : masterpieces from the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum, Harry N. Abrams, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, New York, 1996, p. 57
- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : genius, obsession and lust, Prestel, Munich - New York, 1996, p. 39-39 (detail), p. 41
- Ian Gibson, The Shameful life of Salvador Dalí, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, il. XIII
- Dawn Ades, Fiona Bradley, Salvador Dalí: a mythology, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1998, p. 41, p. 41 (detail), p. 109 (detail)
- Dali exhibition 1999, NTV Europe B.V., [S.l.], 1999, p. 69, p. 70-71 (detail)
- Fèlix Fanés, Salvador Dalí, la construcción de la imagen : 1925-1930, Electa, [Madrid], 1999, p. 148, p. 148 (detail)
- Ian Gibson, Lorca-Dalí : el amor que no pudo ser, Plaza Janés, Barcelona, 1999, p. 6
- Dalí's optical illusions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2000, p. 15, p. 15 (detail)
- Masterpieces of surrealism, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2000, p. 20 (indirect image), p. 134
- Fèlix Fanés, El Gran masturbador, Electa, Madrid, 2000, p. 18
- Robert S. Lubar, The Salvador Dalí Museum collection, Bulfinch, Boston - New York - London, 2000, p. IX, p. 54
- Ian Gibson, Dalí joven, Dalí genial, Aguilar, Madrid, 2001, p. 257
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Salvador Dalí : désirs inassouvis du purisme au surréalisme, 1925-1935, La Passage, Paris-New York, 2002, p. 135 (detail), p. 137 (detail), il. 19
- Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 88
- The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 88
- Michael Elsohn Ross, Salvador Dalí and the surrealists, their lives and ideas : 21 activities, Chicago Review Press, Chicago, 2003, p. II (detail), p. 49
- Ricard Mas Peinado, Universdalí, Lunwerg, Barcelona, Madrid, 2003, p. 83
- Dalí, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 113, p. 114 (detail)
- Persistence and memory : new critical perspectives on Dalí centennial, Bompiani, [Milà], 2004, p. 29 (detail)
- Beatriz Fernández Ruiz, De Rabelais a Dalí : la imagen grotesca del cuerpo, Universitat de València, València, 2004, p. 259 (detail), cover
- Enric Bou, Daliccionario : objetos, mitos y símbolos de Salvador Dalí, Tusquets, Barcelona, 2004, p. 12
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dali : le grand paranoïaque, Découvertes Gallimard Arts, Paris, 2004, p. 1-9 (details), p. 51
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí the impresario of surrealism, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004, p. 1 (detail), p. 2-3 (detail), p. 4-5 (detail), p. 6-7 (detail), p. 8-9 (detail), p. 51 (detail)
- Jean-Louis Gaillemin, Dalí : master of fantasies, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004, p. 1-9 (details), p. 51, p. 51 (details)
- Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Salvador Dalí : vida i obra d'un geni, Columna, Barcelona, 2004, n. p.
- Patrice Schmitt, Étude psychanalytique de la création chez Salvador Dalí, Lacour-Ollé, Nimes, 2004, il. 1.4
- Vicent Santamaria de Mingo, El Pensament de Salvador Dalí en el llindar dels anys trenta, Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, 2005, p. 276 (detail)
- Salvador Dali centennial retrospective, Ueno Royal Museum, Ueno, 2006, p. 55, p. 56, p. 57, p. 54 (detail)
- Salvador Dalí : La gare de Perpignan - Pop, Op, Yes-yes, Pompier, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2006, p. 109
- Dalí & film, Tate Publishing, London, 2007, p. 23
- Mª Mercè Riera i Arnijas, Dalí, Ciro, [Barcelona], 2008, p. 71, p. 142
- Salvador Dalí : liquid desire, National Gallery of Victoria, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, Melbourne, Figueres, 2009, p. 90
- Dalí, Lorca y la Residencia de Estudiantes, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, [Madrid], 2010, p. 284 (detail)
- Catherine Grenier, Salvador Dalí : l'invention de soi, Flammarion, Paris, 2011, p. 96
- Ralf Schiebler, Dalí : the reality of dreams, Prestel, New York, Munich, London, 2011, p. 38-39 (detail), p. 41
- Dalí, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012, p. 118
- Roger Rothman, Tiny surrealism : Salvador Dalí and the aesthetics of the small, University of Nebraska, Lincoln & London, 2012, p. 65
- Catherine Ingram, Andrew Rae (il.), This is Dalí, Laurence King Publishing, London, 2014, p. 32
- William Jeffett, Juan José Lahuerta, Picasso-Dalí, Dalí-Picasso, Museu Picasso, Salvador Dalí Museum, Sant Petersburg, Barcelona, 2014, p. 171
- Disney & Dalí : architects of the imagination, Disney, New York, Los Angeles, 2015, p. 31
- Daniel R. Caruncho, Salvador Dalí, las obras de su vida, Dos de Arte, Barcelona, 2015, p. 31
- Dali : poetics of the small, 1929-1936, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 2018, p. 26, p. 96 (detall)
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