Owners, heirs and executors
Sell your E. Charlton Fortune painting
This page explains how Steven Stern Fine Arts approaches an E. Charlton Fortune, from the first photographs you send to a finished sale or consignment.
What to send us
Clear photographs settle most first questions about a Fortune. Please send:
- the complete front, taken straight on without glare;
- the full reverse, showing any title, place name such as Monterey, St. Ives or St. Tropez, date, stamp or label;
- a close view of the signature;
- the size of the picture itself (not the frame), and whether it is oil on canvas or board, or a work on paper;
- any history you know: how it came into the family, receipts, exhibition labels, prior appraisals.
Please don't clean, reframe or remove labels from the painting before we have seen it.
How we evaluate a Fortune
Every evaluation is free and confidential. The gallery weighs authorship, period, subject, medium, condition, provenance, exhibition history, literature and the work's place in her career. With Fortune, subject and period are central: a Monterey picture of the 1910s, a European harbor of the 1920s, an exposition scene and a portrait each appeal to somewhat different buyers.
Your options
- Direct purchase by the gallery.
- Consignment, with the gallery offering the painting to its collectors for you.
- Private sale and advice for significant single works, estates and mixed collections.
Seeing the painting
The gallery is in Los Angeles and works with Fortune owners nationwide, from the Monterey Peninsula and San Francisco to the East Coast, travelling to see important pictures.
E. Charlton Fortune seller inquiry
A short description of the Fortune and a few photos are all we need to begin.
Prefer to talk? Call (310) 570-5679 or email StevenSternFineArts@gmail.com.
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