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I did not enter the Museum thanks to my father but through Sotomayor. I went there to deliver some furniture and while I was there he came and spoke to me. He asked me whether I wanted to join the Museum and I accepted. Initially I turned down the offer, because it would mean a change of life for me, but I spoke to my father and he told me that I would be fine there. That's how I joined the Prado Museum. I started out in the halls in the afternoons, but I didn't last long there, because Sánchez Cantón came along and said, "This boy shouldn't be in the hall, anybody can do that. Get him out of there." That's how I entered the atelier.
He began to work at the Museum as a carpenter and later, after a while as a gallery attendant, he joined the restoration workshop, carrying out carpentry work which was his specialty. His father also worked at the Museo Nacional del Prado and helped evacuate works of art during the Spanish Civil War.
Interview recorded on February 11, 2015
