Sell your Henrietta Berk
Steven Stern Fine Arts is the leading dealer in Henrietta Berk’s work — the gallery behind her rediscovery and the 2021 Hilbert Museum retrospective. We pay competitive prices and handle everything discreetly.
Front, back, signature and any labels, plus size and how you acquired it.
Steven Stern reviews the painting personally and responds with an assessment.
Prompt payment; we can arrange professional packing and fine-art courier pickup.
Seller inquiry
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Prefer to talk? Call (310) 570-5679 or email StevenSternFineArts@gmail.com.
Berk’s most sought-after paintings feature highly saturated color and multiple layers of thick paint: Bay Area and Central Valley landscapes, beach and figure scenes, interiors and large floral still lifes from c. 1959–1970. Works signed “H. Berk” or “Berk” on canvas or board, any size.
Photograph the whole front of the painting square-on in even daylight, then the entire back, including the stretcher or board and any labels, stamps or writing. Add a close-up of the signature; Berk often signed “H. Berk.” Measure the canvas or board itself, not the frame, and tell us whether it is framed.
Anything you know about the painting’s history helps: whether it came from the artist or her family, a gallery receipt, an exhibition label, or a note of when and where it was bought. Please don’t clean the surface or remove old labels. Berk’s thick impasto can be fragile, and labels help document a work.
Steven Stern Fine Arts is a Los Angeles gallery at 11901 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 601. Steven Stern’s efforts led to Henrietta Berk: In Living Color, the 2021–22 retrospective at the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University, and the accompanying book. Read her biography, see the exhibition record, or browse her paintings.
Selling Western American or Early California paintings by other artists as well? See the gallery’s westernartexpert.com.