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Post War and Contemporary Art Gallery Both were critical and commercial successes that resulted in important placements with various American museums.

Mnuchin Gallery is located in the historic five-story townhouse at 45 East 78th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and is dedicated to presenting museum-quality exhibitions of postwar and contemporary art. Owner and founder Robert Mnuchin, whose passion for the arts developed through his childhood and his longstanding career in the financial sector as the head of the trading desk at Goldman Sa

chs, began a successful second career as an art dealer in 1992, co-founding C&M Arts in 1992, and the bi-coastal operation, L&M Arts in 2005. In 2013, the gallery was renamed Mnuchin Gallery under the direction of Robert Mnuchin and his partner, Sukanya Rajaratnam. Continuing a tradition begun over two decades ago, Mnuchin Gallery presents thoughtfully curated, carefully researched exhibitions, documented with scholarly publications. Its first year of programming comprised two major solo shows of Ellsworth Kelly and Donald Judd, each highlighting bodies of work that had never been the subject of a focused exhibition. Advising institutional and prominent private clients has remained a core focus, with particular expertise in artists such as Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Clyfford Still, among others. The gallery has also selectively promoted reclusive primary artists such as David Hammons and El Anatsui on a collaborative basis with exciting results. Combining the historical with the contemporary has been something the gallery has done masterfully, most recently with "Casting Modernity: Bronze in the Twentieth Century," which saw works as diverse as Matisse and Koons, brought together in what has been arguably its most acclaimed exhibition to date.

03/11/2026

An excerpt from Carter Ratcliff’s new Substack in honor of our beloved founder, Robert Mnuchin:

“Few if any other galleries followed Mnuchin’s model... At every stage of his art world career, he functioned not as a traditional dealer so much as an art lover who opened a gallery because he wanted to extend his enthusiasms beyond the bounds of his private collection. The Mnuchin Gallery was a business enterprise, of course, yet its exhibitions always had a further mission: to focus the art world’s attention and expand its imagination.”

Read the full tribute at the link in our bio.

01/28/2026

Last chance! Final days to see Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings, 1978-2025, closing on this Saturday, January 31, 2026.

Gallery Hours
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Installation views of Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings, 1978–2025, at Mnuchin Gallery, November 6, 2025 – January 31, 2026.
© 2026 Julian Schnabel Studio. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging.

01/17/2026

On view for its final two weeks, “Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings, 1978–2025” remains open through January 31, 2026. Spanning nearly five decades, the exhibition presents a focused selection of Schnabel’s plate paintings, from early works such as “Winter (Or the Rose Garden that Jacqueline Built When She Was a Little Girl)” (1982) to more recent explorations including “Large Rose Painting (Near Van Gogh’s Grave)” (2015), offering a clear and comprehensive view of one of the artist’s most uncompromising and enduring bodies of experimentation.

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday–Saturday
10:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Installation view of Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings, 1978–2025, at Mnuchin Gallery, November 6, 2025 – January 31, 2026.
© 2026 Julian Schnabel Studio. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging.

12/20/2025

In Memory of Robert Mnuchin
(1933 – 2025)

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Robert Mnuchin, who died on Friday at his home in Connecticut. Robert’s commitment to art grew from a deep and lifelong belief in its power to move, challenge, and endure. Following his legendary career at Goldman Sachs, he founded his gallery in 1992, guiding Mnuchin Gallery for more than three decades.

A monumental figure in the art world, Robert was a true visionary, distinguished by his personal drive to present thoughtful exhibitions of post-war and contemporary art. The care and rigor he brought to the gallery extended well beyond its walls, shaping conversations and relationships across the wider art community.

Above all, Robert was deeply devoted to his family, who were at the center of his life and a constant source of pride. He will be profoundly missed by all of us at the gallery, as well as by the many friends whose lives he touched with his unparalleled wisdom and wit. He will continue to be an inspiration to us all.

With love,
Mnuchin Gallery

12/07/2025

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 ends today! Come by Booth H14 to see our presentation of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Ed Ruscha, Joan Mitchell, John Chamberlain, and other outstanding artists.

Fair Hours:
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Photography by Dawn Blackman

12/02/2025

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2025
Booth H14

Public Days:
Friday, December 5, 2025, 11am to 6pm

Saturday, December 6, 2025, 11am to 6pm

Sunday, December 7, 2025, 11am to 6pm
Art Basel Miami Beach opens tomorrow at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Included in our presentation are works by Josef Albers, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Chamberlain, Joan Mitchell, Julian Schnabel, Alma Thomas, and Andy Warhol.
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ON VIEW IN NEW YORK
Julian Schnabel:
Plate Paintings

“Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings”, on view at Mnuchin Gallery from November 6, 2025 – January 31, 2026, offers a sweeping view of one of the artist’s most uncompromising achievements. With the plate paintings, Schnabel continues to refine an art form that fuses plasticity with meaning, gesture with consciousness. Confronting both the material and the metaphysical, the present exhibition is an invitation to experience the palpable weight of image-making itself.

For all inquiries, please contact:
[email protected]

Image: Julian Schnabel, Lobster Girl IV, 2016, Private Collection
Photo by Argenis Apolinario. Courtesy of Vito Schnabel Gallery © Julian Schnabel Studio

11/20/2025

Bob’s Worlds (1980) by Julian Schnabel () from the Nicola Erni Collection is currently on view at Mnuchin Gallery. Executed in oil, plates, Bondo on wood and canvas, the work stands as one of Schnabel’s first figurative plate paintings. The title is believed to refer to Bob Williamson, a friend and early mentor figure within Schnabel’s New York circle. Inspired in part by the expressive possibilities of mosaic—particularly the sculptural surfaces of Antoni Gaudí—Schnabel transformed the idea by using broken plates to build a textured, fractured pictorial ground. The resulting composition evokes layered inner worlds and the tension between vulnerability and resilience, themes central to the artist’s exploration of identity and perception.
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The piece is featured in “Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings, 1978–2025” at Mnuchin Gallery, on view from November 6, 2025 – January 31, 2026. A rare opportunity to experience nearly five decades of Schnabel’s groundbreaking practice.

Image: Installation view of Julian Schnabel, ‘Bob’s Worlds’, 1980, oil, plates, Bondo on wood and canvas
© 2025 Julian Schnabel Studio. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging.

11/12/2025

Julian Schnabel often confronts mortality, memory, and the porous boundary between self and subject. His fragmentary surfaces testify to the impossibility of fixing the self in paint, embodying instead a multiplicity of being. These are images that resist resolution: devotional and defiant, monumental yet intimate in feeling, where thought and emotion, image and event, coexist in perfect tension.

Image: Installation view of Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings, 1978–2025 at Mnuchin Gallery, November 6, 2025 – January 31, 2026.
Self-Portrait with a Hat and Blue Glasses II, 2025, oil, plates, and Bondo on aluminum, 72 x 60 x 10 1/2 inches
Number 6 (Van Gogh Self-Portrait Musee d’Orsay, Vincent), 2020, oil, plates, and Bondo on wood, 72 x 60 x 10 inches
Rembrandt, 2022, oil, plates, and Bondo on wood, 70 x 60 x 8 inches
© 2025 Julian Schnabel Studio. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging.

11/08/2025

Please join us today for Upper East Side Gallery Walk!

Now on view, “Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings” offers a sweeping view of one of the artist’s most uncompromising achievements. With the plate paintings, Schnabel continues to refine an art form that fuses plasticity with meaning, gesture with consciousness. Confronting both the material and the metaphysical, the present exhibition is an invitation to experience the palpable weight of image-making itself.

Gallery Hours:
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday - Saturday

Image: Julian Schnabel, St. Francis in Ecstasy, 1980, oil, plates, and bondo on wood, 96 x 84 x 5 3/4 inches (243.8 x 213.4 x 14.6 cm)
Mary Boone, New York, Photography by Zindman/Freemont © Julian Schnabel Studio

11/03/2025

Opening this Thursday, “Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings” will be on view at Mnuchin Gallery from November 6, 2025, through January 31, 2026.

Installation view of Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings, 1978–2025 at Mnuchin Gallery, November 6, 2025 – January 31, 2026. © 2025 Julian Schnabel Studio. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging.

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