Photographs 01 Julião Sarmento, Azul Cadoiço (2019) · Photo GualdimG, CC BY-SA 4.0 02 Luis Feito, Maïrel, No 1 (1978) · Photo Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 03 Eduardo Chillida, Peine del Viento (1977) · Photo MMMM2021, CC0 04 Cristina Iglesias, Trece paneles de resina y polvo de bronce (2000) · Photo Samuel Mann, CC BY 2.0 05 Óscar Domínguez, El toro · Photo Jl FilpoC, CC BY-SA 4.0 06 Antoni Muntadas, Between the Frames: The Forum (sala azul) (1983-1993) · Photo Kippelboy, CC BY-SA 3.0
No provenance, no entry.
An identified professional, documented work and verifiable provenance. It is what separates a gallery from a house clearance, and the only thing that decides what gets in here. The order is not for sale.
Read the pact →Galleries
216 galleries · in alphabetical order, because the order is not for sale
- 001 · Madrid 1 Mira Madrid →
- 002 · Madrid 2 Mira Archiv →
- 003 · Barcelona 3 Punts Galeria →
- 004 · Barcelona ADN Galería →
- 005 · Lleida Adrià Codina Art Gallery →
- 006 · Sitges Àgora 3 →
- 007 · Barcelona Al-Tiba9 Gallery →
- 008 · Barcelona Alalimón Galería →
- 009 · Sevilla Alarcón Criado →
- 010 · Valencia Alba Cabrera →
- 216 All the galleries →
What the galleries sell
All the categories →Fairs
The calendar →Journal
All the articles →-
Four fairs in nine weeks, and only one vets what is sold
Estampa, Swab, Loop and Feriarte pack the Spanish art autumn into nine weeks. What you buy at each, what each guarantees, and what to ask at the stand.
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Buying from the artist pays 10; from a gallery, 21
Spain is the only EU country that has not cut VAT on art. What the directive says, why Brussels has taken Spain to court, and who the tax really penalises.
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Sixteen years do not launder a stolen piece
A 16th-century relief left a Navarrese monastery in 2010 and resurfaced at a Barcelona auction house. What happens to the man who bought it in good faith.
How to tell if a painting is original
What you can check with light, a loupe and ten minutes, and what needs a laboratory. The difference between original, copy and reproduction.
How to tell whether an antique is genuine
Genuine is four questions, not one, and the costliest is the one almost nobody asks. What you can check, what needs a document, and what each attribution means.
Your gallery? Here.
Claim your gallery’s listing, correct it and tell us about your programme. Being here is free, and no gallery can pay to appear ahead of another. Claim my listing →What Teselara is
Teselara is the editorial directory of Spain’s art galleries. Every listing is checked one by one and records where its information came from; no text or photographs are copied from anyone’s website, and the order in which they appear is not for sale. It is written down and dated in the pact.
Alongside the galleries there are artists —with the houses that handle their work—, the fair calendar and buying guides written to be read with the piece in front of you: what documentation to ask for, what price range to expect and what separates the primary market from the secondary.
The antique dealers are still here, with their own standard and their own section: go to the antique dealers →
Frequently asked questions
- 01 Can I buy here?
- Not yet. Teselara is today a directory of galleries and antique dealers and a collection of buying guides. The marketplace opens in 2027, and until then what is here serves to get you to the house that will sell you the piece better prepared.
- 02 What is the difference between a gallery and an antique dealer?
- What they sell and how. A gallery works with art and, in the primary market, does not buy it: it represents the artist and takes a commission. An antique dealer buys objects and resells them, and their craft is the find and knowing what they have. They are two different businesses, with different documentation, which is why they have separate sections here.
- 03 How does a business get into the directory?
- We add it ourselves from public sources, and every listing records the address its information came from so it can be checked. We copy no text and no photographs from anyone else’s website. If you are the owner, you can claim the listing, correct it or ask us to take it down.
- 04 Can anyone pay to appear, or to appear higher?
- No. The order is not for sale: it is the first rule of the pact, published and dated. No house in this directory has paid to be here, and none can pay to move ahead of another.
- 05 Why do you insist so much on provenance?
- Because it answers at once the two questions that decide a purchase: whether the piece is what they say it is, and whether whoever is selling it is entitled to. Almost no chain of owners is complete, and that is normal; what marks out a serious house is that it declares the gaps instead of covering them up.
- 06 I have a piece and want to sell it. What do I do?
- We do not buy or broker today. The selling page sets out what routes exist, what documentation is worth gathering before you show anything, and what questions to ask so you do not accept the first figure you are given.