When Robert Mnuchin felt anxious, he would mentally rehang his collection. He would picture the walls, move paintings from room to room in his mind and reconstruct entire exhibitions from memory. For those closest to him, that story captured everything about who he was: a collector at heart.
In this video, Sotheby’s specialists, artists and collaborators reflect on Mnuchin’s extraordinary instinct for identifying truly historic works, his transition from Goldman Sachs partner to influential gallerist, and the exhibitions that helped reshape the market and public understanding of artists like Rothko, de Kooning and Koons. Jeff Koons recounts how Mnuchin organized a landmark presentation of his work years before major museums could, while specialists explore why Mnuchin believed de Kooning was “the chairman of the board” of modern art.
Sotheby’s is proud to present the Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart, a standalone single-owner auction during Sotheby’s Spring Marquee Sales, to be held in New York City on 14 May.
