Owners, heirs and executors

Sell your Colin Campbell Cooper painting

This page explains how Steven Stern Fine Arts approaches a Colin Campbell Cooper, from the first photographs you send to a finished sale or consignment.

What to send us

Clear photographs settle most first questions about a Cooper. Please send:

• the complete front, taken straight on without glare;
• the full reverse, showing any title, city, building name, date, stamp or label;
• a close view of the signature;
• the size of the picture itself (not the frame), and whether it is oil on canvas or board, or watercolor on paper;
• any history you know: how it came into the family, receipts, exhibition labels, prior appraisals.

Please don't clean, reframe or remove labels from the painting before we have seen it.

How we evaluate a Cooper

Every evaluation is confidential. The gallery weighs authorship, period, subject, medium, condition, provenance, exhibition history, literature and the work's place in Cooper's career. With Cooper, subject and medium are central: a New York skyscraper view, a European cathedral, a 1915 exposition scene and a Santa Barbara garden each appeal to somewhat different buyers, and he worked as seriously in watercolor as in oil.

Your options

• Direct purchase by the gallery.
• Consignment, with the gallery offering the painting to its collectors for you.
• Private sale and advice for significant single works, estates and mixed collections.

Seeing the painting

The gallery is in Los Angeles and works with Cooper owners nationwide, from New York and Philadelphia to Santa Barbara, travelling to see important pictures.

Colin Campbell Cooper seller inquiry

A short description of the Cooper and a few photos are all we need to begin.

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

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