Adelaide Dunn

Adelaide Dunn is Associate Specialist and Head of Sale for Bonhams' Impressionist & Modern Art Department in London. Currently, she is responsible for business-getting and client management in Germany, Austria, Greece, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and the Channel Islands, traveling frequently for meetings and valuations.

Before joining Bonhams in 2020, Adelaide gained experience at a global array of galleries, auction houses and museums, including Christie's and the Serpentine Galleries in London, as well as the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She is a qualified lawyer in New York and New Zealand and has presented academic papers on topics including appropriation art, performance art and the intersections of art, law and technology. Her legal experience has also involved litigation on Nazi-era art restitution cases as well as policymaking in the field of artists' copyright and moral rights.

Adelaide holds a particular interest in analyzing avant-garde movements through queer, feminist and postcolonial lenses, with a marked enthusiasm for women and genderqueer artists from the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Adelaide holds a Master's in Art Business from the Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York, a Master of Laws from the New York University School of Law, a Bachelor of Laws (Honors) from the University of Auckland, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Auckland, where she tutored Art History and graduated at the top of her class.