Robert Mnuchin

Robert Eliot Mnuchin ( ; September 5, 1933 – December 19, 2025) was an American art dealer and previously an investment banker. After a 33-year career with Goldman Sachs, he retired to found the Mnuchin Gallery in New York City.

As an art dealer, Mnuchin was particularly known for his long association with Dutch-American abstract painter Willem de Kooning. and grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Mnuchin graduated from Yale University in 1955. In his final year before retirement, he earned a reported $8.7 million salary.

In 1992, Mnuchin opened his gallery, C&M Arts, with James Corcoran, a Los Angeles-based dealer. Mnuchin became particularly known for his exhibitions of the work of Dutch-American abstract artist Willem de Kooning, including a 50-year retrospective. Alexander Calder, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, After Levy's departure, dealer Sukanya Rajaratnam was promoted to a partner at the again-renamed Mnuchin Gallery, remaining in the position until 2023. In February 2026, the Gallery announced it would close at the end of the month following Mnuchin's passing.

Mnuchin's personal collection included work by DeKooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. They had two children. One son, Alan G. Mnuchin, was a vice president at Goldman Sachs in 1995, when he married Kimberly E. Kassel. The second son, Steven Mnuchin, also became a banker with Goldman Sachs

Mnuchin married his second wife, Adriana, in 1963. Adriana Mnuchin founded retail enterprises Tennis Lady and Cashmere-Cashmere. Robert and Valerie Mnuchin opened a restaurant together in Shelter Island, New York in 2023. His step-daughter, Lisa Abelow Hedley, was nominated for an Emmy award for documentary film, and is married to the writer of Flashdance, Tom Hedley, with whom she has four children.

In 1990, Mnuchin and his wife Adriana bought the Mayflower Inn, a country house hotel in Washington, Connecticut, which they turned into a Relais & Chateaux 30-room hotel, spa, and restaurant, before selling it in 2007. In 2011, they purchased a Upper East Side house at 14 East 95th Street from Solomon Asser for $14.25 million, using his company, Nuke Properties LLC. Initially listed in 2014 at $17 million, it sold in January 2016 to Alastair and Alisa Wood for a reported $13 million.

Mnuchin's son Steven served as the Secretary of the Treasury in the first Trump cabinet. The elder Mnuchin contributed to Democratic politicians in most election cycles and declined to discuss his son's politics with the press.