BIO
Aurora Wilson Dyer Gough (RMA) advises and works with art world stakeholders, including museum curators, art dealers, auction houses, private collectors and art advisors, on in-depth provenance research and due diligence, especially related to cultural property transfers in the Nazi era.
With over 10 years of experience across art world industries, she has built a skill set of working knowledge and a strong network in both business and scholarly research.
She has dedicated her career to archival and historical research, editing, and writing. Specialising in Holocaust-Era Assets as well as Old Master Paintings and 19th - 20th century French, Austrian, German and Norwegian Art. Her projects have covered paintings, works on paper, prints, sculptures, and objects spanning from the 17th Century to the 21st Century, as well as Digital Art History.
ABOUT
Aurora is an art historian and expert provenance researcher based in London and Amsterdam. Aurora has extensive experience conducting research on the historical ownership of art and cultural property, particularly regarding claims of Nazi-era dispossession. Her research has contributed to the identification, recovery or restitution of stolen or looted artworks.
Previously, Aurora worked as a Provenance Research Specialist at The Rijksmuseum (2022-2024), with international experience at The Munch Museum, Oslo; The RKD, The Hague; Sotheby’s, London; Bonhams, London; Christie’s, London; and Frieze Masters, London.
During her early career at Sotheby's London, she worked across departments, gaining crucial knowledge of the Art Market and Client services. She has honed her art historical knowledge of Old Master Paintings and Impressionist & Modern art. With experience in Client management, valuations, and proposals, she is well placed to offer such services.
Having completed a Research MA at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, 2020-2023, with a speciality in Degenerate Art, Transnational art market between Germany and Norway in the 1930-40s and Edvard Munch & German Collectors. She holds a Bachelor’s in Art History from the University of Manchester in 2015. Her research focused on Gustav Klimt’s unfinished portraits and the restitution claim made by Adele Bloch-Bauer’s niece, Maria Altmann.
Recipient of the 2023 Christie’s Grant for Nazi-era Provenance Research for ‘Next Generation Provenance Researchers, ’ where she is a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (2024-2025). Contributing member of The Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung and organiser of their ‘Looted’ symposium 2024 at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Member of the University of Amsterdam ‘Looted Art: Provenance Research and Restitution in the Netherlands’. Her work as an inventory and database specialist has been published in the recent edition of Mondrian and Photography: Professional Portraits and Snapshots from the project Mondrian Editions in 2022.
Recent recipient of the Art Ashes 2026 grant funding to support ongoing pre-PhD research into the Scandinavian Art Market 1933-1945.