Owners, heirs and executors

Sell your Joseph Henry Sharp painting

Here is how Steven Stern Fine Arts handles a Joseph Henry Sharp, from your first email or call to a completed purchase or consignment.

What to send us

Good photographs answer most early questions. Please include:

• the whole front, photographed square-on in even light;
• the entire back. Sharp and his dealers often wrote the sitter's name, tribe, place or date on the reverse, and those notes matter;
• the signature and any monogram or date on the front;
• the dimensions of the image area, not the frame;
• what you know about the painting's history: family ownership, purchase records, exhibition or dealer labels, earlier appraisals.

Please don't clean, reframe or peel anything off the back of your Sharp. Inscriptions and old labels are often the best clue to the sitter and the date.

How we evaluate a Sharp

Evaluations are confidential. The gallery looks at authorship, period, subject, condition, provenance, exhibition history, literature and importance within the artist's work. For Sharp, the sitter, the place and the date can matter as much as the size of the canvas.

Your options

• Outright purchase by the gallery.
• Consignment, with the gallery offering the painting to its clients on your behalf.
• Advice and private sale for important single works, estates and multi-artist collections.

Seeing the painting

From its Los Angeles office the gallery works with Sharp owners across the United States and travels to view important paintings.

Joseph Henry Sharp seller inquiry

Tell us what you know about your Sharp: the sitter or subject, the size, and a few photographs will do.

Prefer to talk? Call (310) 570-5679 or email StevenSternFineArts@gmail.com.

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