Juan de Ávalos

Juan de Ávalos y García-Taborda (October 21, 1911 in Mérida – July 7, 2006 in Madrid) was a Spanish sculptor.

As a six-year-old he was a student of D. Juan Carmona, pastor of the Church of Santa Eulalia, who taught him and three other children to draw.

de Ávalos's family moved to Madrid shortly after that, as his father's eyesight deteriorated.

In Madrid, de Ávalos's father showed his son's drawings to the painter Manuel Benedito.

Convinced of the boy's talent, he advised de Ávalos's father to take his son to the Casón del Buen Retiro.