Steven Stern Fine Arts · Los Angeles
We buy Armin Hansen paintings
Do you own a painting by Armin Hansen (1886–1957), the Monterey painter of fishermen, trawlers and the Pacific, or are you settling an estate that includes one? Steven Stern Fine Arts offers a free, confidential evaluation and will explain your options before you decide anything.
Wondering what it might be worth? See how Hansen paintings are valued.
Why owners call us
An Early California specialist for your Hansen
Third-generation dealer
Steven Stern comes from three generations of art dealers and has sold California paintings online since 1995, longer than almost anyone in the field.
Free and confidential
Evaluations cost nothing and carry no obligation. We never publish prices, and the names of owners and buyers are never made public.
Purchase or consignment
The gallery can buy your Hansen outright or offer it privately to collectors, whichever suits the painting and you.
The process
How selling an Armin Hansen works
Send photographs
The front, the full back and the signature, with the size and anything you know of the painting's history.
Free evaluation
Steven Stern reviews it personally: subject, period, medium, size, condition and provenance.
Your options
We explain purchase and consignment for your Hansen. The decision is yours, with no obligation.
Prompt completion
When you accept, we arrange collection or shipping and pay promptly.
Previously handled
Armin Hansen paintings we have handled
At Rest
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Drydock
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Boats at Sea
Previously handled by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Castroville Slough
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Dusk at Sea
Previously handled by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Fishermen in the Rain
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Who collects Armin Hansen?
Hansen is prized above all as a painter of men at work on the sea. His years crewing on North Sea trawlers before 1912, and his long life among the fishing fleet at Monterey, gave his boats, nets and weather-beaten crews an authority few marine painters match. Collectors of California Impressionism look for his Monterey harbor and wharf scenes; collectors of American marine painting look for his storm-tossed boats and the bold, broad brushwork he brought back from Europe.
He also painted landscapes and ranch scenes and was an accomplished etcher. Because his output varies so widely in subject, size and medium, the right way to sell depends on the specific work. Our past sales page and the biography give more background.