[1] In 1944, the Director of the Hospital Saint Bois Pavilion, Dr. Pablo Purriel, contacted Joaquín Torres-García to request a mural that would distract tuberculosis patients from the pain and anguish that they were suffering.
The women who participated were Quela Rovira, Elsa Andrada, Esther Barrios de Martín, María Helena García Brunel, Teresa Olascoaga and Josefina Canel.
The men who participated were Augusto Torres, Horacio Torres [es], Julio Alpuy, Gonzalo Fonseca, Daniel de los Santos, Julián San Vicente, Manuel Pailós, Sergio de Castro, Alceu Ribeiro, Luis A. Gentieu, Juan Pardo, Andrés Moskovics, Héctor Ragni, and Daymán Antúnez.
[2] The murals were designed to follow an abstract theme and to draw from the Universal Constructivism art movement developed by the Taller Torres Garcia group, with added elements of daily life in the country.
In 1997 ANTEL, the government-owned telecommunications entity of Uruguay, signed a contract with the Ministry of Education and Culture so that the former would be in charge of the custody and care of some parts of the murals that remained in the Saint Bois Hospital and those that were recovered after the fire.