The Gallery

Founded in 1994, DELAMANO specialises in Old Masters, with a primary focus on XVI to XVIII century Spanish Old Master Drawings. Even though these have only recently become a subject of interest to international collectors, DELAMANO has been advising numerous private and institutional collections on their acquisitions for decades, attempting to break the traditional art-historical opinion that suggests that the brilliance of drawings by Spanish artists was exclusively confined to preliminary sketches for final compositions.

Scholarly research has always been a key concept within the philosophy of DELAMANO, and it has been crucial in their endeavour to internationalise Spanish art. Due to their thorough research and the rigorous criteria DELAMANO applies to attribution, conservation and provenance, the catalogues that they have regularly published since 2002, such as FECIT or Trazos de Luz, have presented an extremely large number of previously unpublished drawings by great Spanish artists and by foreign artists working in Spain.

In recent years the gallery’s active focus on the study of the 16th to 18th-century Spanish school has expanded to include another school that has been totally overlooked by the art market and art historians, namely that of the artists active during the colonial period in the various Spanish viceroyalties in Latin America.

Notable sales

The gallery has sold paintings and drawings to many of the great museums of the world –Spanish, European and American – including the Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid), Biblioteca Nacional (Madrid), Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas (Madrid) or Museo de Bellas Artes San Pío de Valencia, in Spain. European institutions such as Musée du Louvre (Paris), The British Museum (London), The Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) or Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisbon). American museums have also acquired selected works, such as The Meadows Museum (Dallas), The Hispanic Society of America (New York), The Morgan Library and Museum (New York), J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit) or Museo de Arte de Ponce (Puerto Rico).

Thinking of selling?

If you own a work of Spanish or colonial art and are considering selling it within Spain or abroad, the DELAMANO Old Masters can help you with this process. Learn how to do it here. We have long-established contacts with the leading collectors, museums and foundations that acquire works of this type, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, decorative art objects, etc.

We manage every stage and aspect of the sale process, from the correct cataloguing of the work to its valuation. We guarantee to find the most appropriate collector or public institution, either in Spain or abroad.

Our publications

Throughout the years the gallery has issued diverse publications with reference to consultation from important Spanish and international art historians with scientific research on different painters and their artistic production. Likewise, exhibitions have been held which have brought significant academic studies on painting in Spain, primarily of the 17th and 18th centuries. Check them out here.