About
Aubrey Catrone
Owner & Consultant
Aubrey is an international art historian, appraiser, and provenance researcher. She earned an MA in History of Art from University College London, specializing in the documented histories of art objects. With an art gallery and academic research background, Catrone founded Proper Provenance, LLC to provide her clients with the tools, not only to historically contextualize art but also to shed light on attribution and legal title within the international art market.
Catrone has researched artworks including paintings, artefacts, works on paper, prints, and sculptures spanning the fourth century B.C.E. to the twenty-first century C.E. She has dedicated her career to archival and historical research, editing, and writing, while simultaneously generating expert knowledge in the field of art crime and cultural heritage protection.
Catrone holds two postgraduate certifications: the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art’s (ARCA) “Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection” (2015) as well as ARCA and The Holocaust Art Restitution Project’s (HARP) “Provenance and the Challenges of Recovering Looted Assets” (2017). She has also appeared as a guest expert on the History Channel and published her scholarship in a variety of publications including RICS Journals and the Journal of Art Crime.
Aubrey is an Accredited Member of the Appraisers Association of America with a Specialization in Impressionist & Modern Art.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Accredited Member, Appraisers Association of America (AAA)
Specialization: Impressionist & Modern Art
ArtTable
Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association
The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA)
Phi Beta Kappa