Kathryn Kremnitzer joined Sotheby’s in June 2021. She is the Vice President, Director, and Head of Sale of 19th-Century European Paintings for Sotheby's in New York. She earned her BA from Cornell in History of Art in 2013 and a PhD at Columbia University in 2020 with a dissertation that explored how Édouard Manet worked across media in the 1860s. She was previously Research Associate in the Painting and Sculpture of Europe department at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she worked on Manet and Modern Beauty (2019), Monet and Chicago (2020), and Cezanne (2022), and contributed to the online scholarly catalogue of Manet’s works in the collection. As a Curatorial Assistant at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she worked on Madame Cézanne (2014) and Tiepolo Caricatures from the Robert Lehman Collection (2014). She specializes in 19th century European painting, particularly French, and works on paper.