Steven Stern Fine Arts · Los Angeles
We buy E. Charlton Fortune paintings
Do you own a painting by E. Charlton Fortune (1885–1969), or are you handling an estate that includes one? Steven Stern Fine Arts would be glad to look at it. The appraisal is free, inquiries are confidential, and we will explain the choices for selling or consigning before you decide anything.
Wondering what it might be worth? See how Fortune paintings are valued.
Why owners call us
An Early California specialist for your Fortune
Familiar with her work
The gallery has sold Fortune paintings ranging from a sunlit Monterey garden of 1918 to a boldly colored harbor view of boats at St. Tropez.
Free, confidential appraisal
Families and collectors who own a Fortune can write to us in confidence, and the appraisal is free. Owner and buyer names are never made public.
Purchase, consignment or private sale
A Fortune can be bought by the gallery, consigned, or placed privately, depending on what suits the picture and its owner.
The process
How an E. Charlton Fortune sale works
Send photographs
The front, the whole reverse and the signature, plus any title, place name or exhibition label on the back.
Confidential review
We consider subject, period, size, support, condition and history.
Choose a route
We set out purchase, consignment and private placement for your Fortune; the decision is yours.
Viewing
For a major Fortune or a group of works, the gallery can see it in person.
Recent placements
E. Charlton Fortune paintings we have sold
Boats, St. Tropez
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Who collects E. Charlton Fortune?
Fortune is an important figure in California Impressionism. Many collectors look for the Monterey pictures of the 1910s, when she spent her summers there: the bay, the wharf, gardens and hillsides painted in broken, brilliant color. Her European paintings of the 1920s, from St. Ives in Cornwall to St. Tropez and Italy, show a bolder Post-Impressionist manner and have their own following.
She also painted portraits and San Francisco's 1915 exposition, and from 1928 she devoted much of her energy to liturgical art, so her easel paintings come chiefly from about 1910 to the late 1920s. Because each picture is different, the right way to sell depends on the specific work. Our past sales page and the biography give more background.