Elizabeth Gorayeb, AAA Certified

USPAP compliant through:

07/08/2024

Specialization(s)

Impressionist & Modern Art

Member Type

Certified Member

Appraiser's Statement

Elizabeth Gorayeb is the president of Gorayeb Art Advisory and Consulting, LLC. For over two decades, Ms. Gorayeb has specialized in art historical research on the provenance and attribution of 19th and 20th century works of art. As the senior vice president in the Impressionist and Modern Art department at Sotheby’s for many years, she led high-profile research efforts in matters of restitution, valuation, and authentication, and continues to work as an independent consultant in this capacity today. In 2016, Ms. Gorayeb was appointed as the founding director of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc., an international non-profit which is dedicated to the accessibility of art historical information, including the digital catalogue raisonné projects for artists Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Tom Wesselmann, and Romare Bearden. In her current capacity as executive director of the WPI, she organizes conferences and lectures internationally on artists’ legacy preservation and provenance research. Ms. Gorayeb is also on the Board of Directors of the Fonds WPI in Paris, and serves on the advisory board of the Helsinki-based non-profit, Nordic Art Intelligence. In addition to being a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America, she holds a B.A. from Wellesley College, and an M.A. from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. She lives with her family in Manhattan.