Owners, heirs and executors
Sell your John Frost painting
This page explains how Steven Stern Fine Arts approaches a John Frost, from the first photographs you send to a finished purchase or consignment.
What to send us
Clear photographs answer most first questions about a Frost. Please send:
- the complete front, taken straight on without glare;
- the full back, showing any title, place name such as Palm Springs or the Sierra, date, stamp or label;
- a close view of the signature;
- the size of the painting itself (not the frame), and whether it is on canvas, board or paper;
- any history you know: how it came into the family, letters, receipts or exhibition labels.
Please don't clean, reframe or remove labels from the painting before we have seen it.
How we evaluate a Frost
Every evaluation is confidential. The gallery weighs authorship, subject, size, medium, condition, provenance and exhibition history, and the painting's place in Frost's career. With Frost, subject and light count for a great deal: a desert view below snow-capped peaks, a Sierra landscape, a spring field of wildflowers in the San Gabriel Valley and a small sketch each appeal to somewhat different collectors.
Your options
- Direct purchase by the gallery.
- Consignment, with the gallery offering the painting privately to its collectors for you.
- Private sale and advice for significant single works, estates and collections.
Seeing the painting
The Los Angeles gallery is at 2525 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405, and is open by appointment. Steven Stern Fine Arts works with Frost owners across the country, from Pasadena and the rest of California to Pennsylvania and the East Coast, and can arrange to see important paintings in person.
John Frost seller inquiry
A short description of the painting and a few photos are all we need to begin.
Prefer to talk? Call Steven Stern Fine Arts at (310) 570-5679 or email StevenSternFineArts@gmail.com.
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