“El pou de la gallina”, scene of a miracle by Saint Ignatius of Loyola. House at number 22 Carrer Sobrerroca, Manresa, where Josep Mestres Cabanes was born.

Antoni Mestres i Baxarias and Manuela Cabanes i Molleví, the artists’ parents.

Mestres Cabanes when he was seven.

His uncle Ignasi Cabanes i Batlles, a painter and stage designer.

Bonaventura Corrons, his first decorative painting teacher, in a drawing by Àngel Millán from 1942.

Stage design studio of Salvador Alarma above the stage at the Circ Barcelonès Theatre in 1915. On the left, seated, Salvador Alarma, and, on the right, standing, Miquel Moragas, the artist’s uncle.

Salvador Alarma (in the twenties).

The theatre designer Maurici Vilomara, with whom Mestres Cabanes worked on various occasions (1926).

Mestres Cabanes during his sea voyage to Buenos Aires, 1921.

Isabel Lanaspa, at the age of eighteen.

The Alarma team at the Seville International Exhibition. From left to right, Salvador Vilanova (carpenter), Pere Boldú (painter/decorator) and Mestres Cabanes, in the Plaza de America, Seville, on 16 April 1929.

Mestres Cabanes in the cloister of Sant Pau del Camp church, setting for some paintings in 1929.

Decoration for a room for a masked ball at the Principal Theatre in Zaragoza (1930).

Front page of the catalogue for his exhibition in Ripoll (1935).

Logo created by the Alarma-Mestres firm (1939).

Poster advertising some dioramas exhibited in the Avenida de la Luz (1941).

Front page of the catalogue for the exhibition at the Sala Barcino in Barcelona (1941).

Façade of the Casa Vilches (Madrid, 1942).

Mestres Cabanes painting at the Llafranc exhibition (August 1943).

Mestres Cabanes with his wife, Isabel Lanaspa, and his daughter Isabel in Plaça Catalunya, Barcelona, on 18 June 1944.

Inside the stage design studio at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. On the left, Joan Vilajoana, and, on the right, Andreu Vallvé, on 27 March 1945, both followers and assistants of Mestres Cabanes.

Opening ceremony of the 1945-1946 academic year at the Theatre Institute. Josep Mestres Cabanes gives the lecture “El ángulo maestro de la escenografía” (The master angle in stage design).

Mestres Cabanes painting the murals in the Mirror Room at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 14 November 1946.

Original by Josep Mestres Cabanes for the 1951-1952 Liceu season.

Exhibition at Casa del Libro, Barcelona. Front, from left to right, Josep Mestres, Juli Borrell, Ramon Pociello, Ricard Opisso and Ros i Güell. From left to right, Mr. Llop, Andreu Carceller, Amadeu Freixes and Isidre Casanovas.

Mestres Cabanes in the Gran Teatre del Liceu studio painting one of the mural panels intended for the Redemptorists’ church on 12 June 1955.

Mestres Cabanes on 5 November 1958.

Mestres Cabanes and his assistant Mr. Miquel in the Liceu stage design studio preparing the float “En sitio y belleza único” for the Mercè festival parade in 1960.

Mestres Cabanes painting one of the twelve dioramas on the life of Columbus intended for the Nova York Fair (1963).

Watercolour by Mestres Cabanes showing the atmosphere of the stage design studio at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Cover of one of the volumes of the Tratado de perspectiva.

End-of-year examination for Mestres Cabanes’ perspective class at the Sant Jordi College of Fine Arts on 16 May 1967.

Mestres Cabanes at the Sant Jordi College of Fine Arts (27 November 1967).

Mestres Cabanes painting from the dome of Burgos Cathedral (1969).

Tribute at Mestres Cabanes at the Theatre Institute to mark a classroom being named after him, on 19 April 1974.

Mestres Cabanes at the entrance to the temple of Karnak (Egypt, 1979).

Mestres Cabanes’ design to convert the Liceu studio space into the Museum of the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Commemorative plaque on the façade of the house where he was born, at 22 Carrer Sobrerroca, Manresa (1983).

Mestres Cabanes in the Salvador brothers’ studio in front of one of his sketches for the play La pregunta perduda o el corral del lleó, by Joan Brossa (1985).

Mestres Cabanes, accompanied by Joan Brossa, Hermann Bonnín and Daniel Giralt-Miracle, in the foyer of the Romea Theatre in Barcelona (1985).

Unveiling of a bust paying tribute to Mestres Cabanes in Burgos on 4 February 1989.

The Prime Minister of Catalonia, Jordi Pujol, with Mestres Cabanes at the presentation of the Gold Medal of the City of Manresa (1989).

Mestres Cabanes with the dancer Joan Magrinyà at the tribute paid to him by the Liceu in 1989.

Official opening of the Josep Mestres Cabanes Centenary exhibition at the Manresa Science and Technology Museum, presided over by the Mayor of the City, Jordi Valls.