Owners, heirs and executors

Sell your William Wendt painting

Here is how Steven Stern Fine Arts handles a William Wendt, 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, including any title, place name, date, stamp or label;
• the signature and date on the front;
• the dimensions of the image area, not the frame, and whether it is on canvas, board or paper;
• what you know about the painting's history: family ownership, purchase records, exhibition or dealer labels, earlier appraisals.

Hold off on cleaning, reframing or removing labels from your Wendt; we'd like to see it as it is.

How we evaluate a Wendt

Evaluations are confidential. The gallery looks at authorship, period, subject, condition, provenance, exhibition history, literature and importance within the artist's work. For Wendt, the date helps a great deal: his brushwork grew firmer and more structured after about 1912, and his California subjects of the 1920s are the heart of his reputation.

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

Working from Los Angeles, the gallery helps Wendt owners anywhere in the US and travels to see major landscapes.

William Wendt seller inquiry

Describe your Wendt and add a few photos; that gives us enough to begin.

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

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