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Wall Street trader-turned-art dealer Robert Mnuchin, standing in front of Jeff Koons's "Wall Relief with Bird" (1991)

The Wise Men

Asher Edelman

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No. I would rather look them in the eye and say, “Listen, you’ve changed your mind. We’d certainly appreciate an opportunity to work with
the piece.”

After your partnership  with James Corcoran ended—amicably, because he wanted to move back to California—why didn’t you change the gallery’s name to Mnuchin?

Many people told me to do that. They said, “People know you, they admire you. And it would be good for you.” But we already had a logo. And maybe I don’t like trading on my own name.

"The Wise Men: Robert Mnuchin" originally appeared in the August 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's August 2008 Table of Contents.