After moving to the Melrose location he exhibited Modern and Impressionist work including solo shows for Matisse, Picasso, Leger, Villon and Kupka.
He has acquired and placed works by artists of the late 19th and 20th centuries, including Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas, Van Gogh, Braque, Chagall, Modigliani, Giacometti, de Kooning, Dubuffet, Francis and Warhol.
While Stern continues to be active in the secondary market, his gallery is focused on leading West Coast hard-edge abstractionists of the twentieth century (representing the estates of Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, and Helen Lundeberg).
Stern’s advocacy reestablished the reputation of Ramos Martínez, resulting in a major retrospective at the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) in Mexico City in 1992.
[4] Created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, it is awarded for gallantry in military action or civilian life for work that enhances the reputation of France through scholarship, arts, sciences and politics.