Robert Hughes
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Robert Hughes Net Worth

Robert Hughes was an Australian writer and art critic born on July 28, 1938. He is best known for his bestselling historical study The Fatal Shore, and for his work as a Time magazine art critic and host of the art-themed television program The Shock of the New.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day July 28, 1938
Birth Place Australia
Age 82 YEARS OLD
Died On Aug 6, 2012 (age 74)
Birth Sign Leo

💰 Net worth: $1.5 billion (2024)

About

Most remembered for a bestselling Australian historical study titled The Fatal Shore, he also worked as a Time magazine art critic and hosted an art-themed television program called The Shock of the New.

Before Fame

After studying architecture and art at the University of Sydney, he worked as an art critic and Cartoonist for The Observer.

Trivia

He hosted a 1990s documentary television series titled American Visions that discussed art produced in the United States from the late Eighteenth Century to the modern day.

Family Life

His first marriage, to Danne Emerson, resulted in a son named Danton. His second marriage, to Victoria Whistler, lasted from 1981 until 1996. A decade prior to his death, he married his third wife, American Painter Doris Downes.

Associated With

He promoted the work of the German-English psychological portrait Painter Lucian Freud.

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