Owners, heirs and executors

Sell your Selden Gile painting

Here is how Steven Stern Fine Arts handles a Selden Connor Gile, 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.

Leave the painting as it is. Don't remove old labels, clean the surface or change the frame before we have seen it.

How we evaluate a Gile

Evaluations are confidential. The gallery looks at authorship, period, subject, condition, provenance, exhibition history, literature and importance within the artist's work. For Gile, the date matters: his most sought-after paintings are the high-keyed oils of the 1920s, painted in and around Oakland and then in Marin County.

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

The gallery is based in Los Angeles and serves collectors and estates throughout the United States. Steven Stern and his associates travel regularly to evaluate paintings and collections.

Selden Gile seller inquiry

Share what you can about the painting. A rough description and a few photos are enough to start.

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

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