This artist from Galicia combines the tradition of lyrical popular scenes with a cutting-edge and innovative spirit. Despite his lack of academic training in his early steps as an artist, his painting was widely viewed as one of the most outstanding examples of the renewal of art in Galicia, alongside other practitioners like Carlos Maside (1897-1958), Laxeiro (1908-1996) and Cándido Fernández Mazas (1902-1942). In the 1950s he left for Paris, where he settled and was part of the school of Spanish painters living in the French capital.

In spite of being influenced by the aesthetic of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and the Cubists, his practice always focused on the representation of everyday scenes connected with his native land, including rural and domestic chores, although he also painted still lifes and landscapes rendered with formal simplification. His drawing was sketchy, albeit with volume in the figures, a broad palette and loose yet accurate brushwork.

Pescadoras is a genre scene with a fine compositional balance based on the placement of the female figures in the space. Its volumetric and serene appearance contrasts with the full and free brushwork, and with the cold tones in the sea and the horizon.