Geraldine Norman
Geraldine Norman | |
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Born | 13 May 1940 Wales | (age 81)
Occupation | Statistician, writer |
Nationality | British |
Geraldine Lucia Norman (born 13 May 1940) is a mathematician and writer who has been instrumental in identifying a collection of forged paintings.
Life and work[]
Born Geraldine Lucia Keen to Harold Hugh Keen and Catherine Eleanor Lyle Cummins. She was educated in St. Anne's College, Oxford. She graduated in 1961 with a Masters of Arts in Mathematics which she followed up by attending the University of California, Los Angeles from 1961 to 62.[1][2]
Career[]
Norman got a job as a statistician for The Times Newspaper in 1962. In 1967 she was the statistician who launched the Times-Sotheby index of art prices which ran from the 1967-71. She progressed in 1969 to become the Sale Room Correspondent of The Times.[1][3] Norman gained a name during that time as Christie's disliked her. She asked awkward questions about secret practices within the industry.[4] She continued her inquisitive nature when she uncovered that 13 drawings by the 19th-century artist Samuel Palmer were forgeries. On 16 July 1976 she published a sensational article in The Times claiming they were modern forgeries and later identified that they had been created by an artist called Tom Keating.[5] She has also investigated authenticity of Van Goghs.[6]
In 1987 she left The Times as she had objected to the Murdoch takeover. Norman joined The Independent newspaper as Art Market Correspondent eventually leaving in 1995 to focus on writing.[7] Roles which she took on after leaving the Independent were as director of The Hermitage Development Trust, editor of the Magazine and chief executive of the Hermitage Foundation UK.
Family[]
She married playwright and novelist John Frank Norman on 16 July 1971. They co-wrote 'The Fake's Progress'. He died in 1980.
Bibliography[]
- The Sale of Works of Art (as Geraldine Keen, 1971)
- Nineteenth Century Painters and Painting, A Dictionary (1977)
- The Fake's Progress (with Tom Keating & Frank Norman, 1977)
- Mrs. Harper’ Niece (as Florence Place, 1982)
- Biedermeier Painting (1987)
- Top Collectors of the World (with Natsuo Miyashita, 1993)
- The Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum (1997)
- Bob Hecht by Bob Hecht (ed. 2014)
- Dynastic Rule: Mikhail Piotrovsky and the Hermitage (2016)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Europa Publications (2003). International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004. Psychology Press. pp. 413–. ISBN 978-1-85743-179-7.
- ^ "Person Page". The peerage. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
- ^ Philip Hook (26 January 2017). Rogues' Gallery: A History of Art and its Dealers. Profile. pp. 227–. ISBN 978-1-78283-215-7.
- ^ FIONA MACCARTHY (1991). "Someone Was Silly". The New York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
- ^ "The Ultimate In Reality TV? Try Televised Art Forgery". Forbes. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
- ^ "Are these flowers real?". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on February 26, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
- ^ David I. Grossvogel (2001). Behind the Van Gogh Forgeries: A Memoir. iUniverse. pp. 182–. ISBN 978-0-595-17717-2.
- 1940 births
- Living people
- British women mathematicians
- British women journalists
- 20th-century British women writers