The Gallery

Portón de San Pedro Art Gallery was founded by Mrs. Lucía Rius de Loureiro and Mr. Julio César Loureiro, who started in the work of gallerist and Art Dealer when he was 26 (twenty six) years old, together with one of the national painting greatest master Zoma Baitler, founding the Río de la Plata Art Gallery in 1956.

Some years later, after the disease of the artist Zoma Baitler and his son Luis Baitler, he decides to found his own gallery. So thus, after looking for a place in accord with the project, during an intense year, he founded “El Portón de San Pedro” in Ciudadela Street 1427/35.

Emblematic place of Montevideo, was a cultural center in the district, where it worked Mr. Taco Larreta`s old “Restaurant de la Llave”. It was also theater, literary café, Art Gallery and innumerable celebrities meeting point.

Its name owes to a secondary gate in the old wall that surrounded Montevideo in the colonial era and upon which is supported the architectural structure of the building dated from 1846.
Since its opening to our days, the gallery keeps on being the family`s property. It is considered the most serious Art Gallery in the country and the one with the greatest trajectory. This is because every painting sold in the gallery, brings an authenticity certificate drew by the gallery`s direction, which is lasting for life and allows the client to have a writing guarantee that he is buying an original, unique and authentic creation.

The gallery also possess a new exchange system by which our client can accede to change a painting bought long ago in the gallery for a new another, agreeing the difference in the way the client prefers.

The gallery has it`s own frames and restauration workshop that guarantees the security of being able to carry out any maintenance of the art creations with a complete reliability and indorsement.

Painting selection

The gallery artistic direction takes charge of the painting selection, carrying out an exhaustive effort to choose each artists best creation and period, and at the same time it discovers new talents and impels them national and internationally. Each artist in the gallery, not only has a very good curriculum, but also his creation complements his artistic formation and many times gets to surpass it.