This is one of the first portraits Dalí painted. It depicts his nurse, Lucia Moncanut, as an old woman. Hired by Dalí's family to look after him and his sister, Ana-Maria, in Figueras, she occupies an important place in the Dalínian iconography. When this picture was painted, the children having grown up, Lucia was taking care of their maternal grandmother, Ana; Dalí remembers having worked at the same time on a portrait of Ana, in profile, holding in her hand a similar dahlia or perhaps a carnation - Dalí can't remember which - like the Moorish carnations that Spanish women were in the habit of placing behind their ears or sticking in their hair. Dalí thinks that he painted Lucia's portrait while he had tonsilitis and she was hovering around him as she used to do when he was a child in order to tell him stories.
    We know that Lucia never left the apartment on Monturiol Street; she never went to Cadaqués. It is she, however, whom the painter confused with the silhouette of Lydia, the wife of a fisherman of Cadaqués, when he painted the figure in the center of a picture such as The Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition. Lydia was used as the archetype for the heroine of a novel by Eugenio d'Ors, La Ben Plantada (The Well-Planted Woman). Her paranoiac personality made a great impression on Picasso and Fernande Olivier when they visited the little port of Cadaqués in 1910.
    Lydia's son and Dalí's father figured out a few years ago that Portrait of Lucia must have been painted c. 1918. Even if it had been done at the end of the following year, it is a good example of Dalí's impressionistic style, as in the Portrait of Hortensia, Peasant Woman of Cadaqués; Old Man at Twilight - and numerous landscapes of the same period. The mastery of his touch, the precision with which he has rendered the half-blind eyes of the old woman, and the richness of color show what a keen eye the young painter had, even at the age of fourteen.

    This painting is of the simple village church and the abbey at Vilabertrin. Vilabertrin is a small Spanish village that lies to the east of Figueras, the town where Dalí spent his childhood. The village is renowned for the Augustine monastery that was built there in the twelfth century. Although undated, the painting has been signed by Dalí in orange paint, in the bottom right corner. In 1920, Dalí painted another view of Vilabertrin, that of the lake; this painting shares a similar style with Vilabertrin Church Tower.
    The oil in this painting has been intensely and liberally applied, the patterns and strokes of the brush are clearly visible. For the water, downward strokes have been used to insinuate the reflection of the trees that line the bank of the river. Within the trees, the energetic brushmarks give the effect of movement and of dense foliage. The concentrated use of the color orange, seen around the trees and the lake, is reminiscent of the Neo-Impressionist painting, Portrait of the Cellist, Ricardo Pitchot. As with Portrait of the Cellist (1920) the use of orange gives an illusion of balmy late-summer afternoon light.