Geraldine Lucia Norman, OBE (born 13 May 1940) is an art journalist who made a special name for identifying fakes, moving on to work for the great Russian museum, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
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 1962 while working as a teaching assistant.
After she published an article suggesting it should be revealed when auction lots were unsold, Peter Wilson, chairman of Sotheby's, was offended and discontinued the index.
She also wrote about the faker Eric Hebborn, fakes at the Getty Museum in California, and investigated the authenticity of Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' sold at Christie's for a record price.
Norman joined The Independent newspaper as Art Market Correspondent eventually leaving in 1995 to focus on writing a book called The Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum (published in 1997 and reissued in 2017).