Owners, heirs and executors

Sell your Maynard Dixon painting

Here is how Steven Stern Fine Arts handles a Maynard Dixon, 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.

Keep your Dixon exactly as you found it. Labels, the frame and even old dust on the back can help document where the painting has been.

How we evaluate a Dixon

Evaluations are confidential. The gallery looks at authorship, period, subject, condition, provenance, exhibition history, literature and importance within the artist's work. For Dixon, the date and the place often tell us a great deal, since his style changed markedly between the illustration work of the early 1900s and the landscapes of his last decades.

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

Steven Stern Fine Arts works from Los Angeles with Dixon owners across the West and beyond, and will travel to see significant paintings and drawings.

Maynard Dixon seller inquiry

A few photographs and whatever you know about how the Dixon came to you are plenty for a first look.

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

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