In 2010, Paul Harvey's painting of Charles Saatchi was banned from the window display of the Artspace Gallery in Maddox Street, London, on the grounds that it was " too controversial for the area ".

The Saatchi Gallery said that Saatchi " would not have any problem " with the painting's display.

In 2004 outside the launch of The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery they wore tall hats with Charles Saatchi's face emblazoned and carried placards claiming that Saatchi had copied their ideas.

Previous Saatchi Gallery shows had included such major figures as Warhol, Guston, Alex Katz, Serra, Kiefer, Polke, Richter and many more.

In Britain, the rise to prominence of the Young British Artists ( YBAs ) after the 1988 Freeze show, curated by Damien Hirst, and subsequent promotion of the group by the Saatchi Gallery during the 1990s, generated a media backlash, where the phrase " conceptual art " came to be a term of derision applied to much contemporary art.

In October 2004 the Saatchi Gallery told the media that " painting continues to be the most relevant and vital way that artists choose to communicate.

* 1991: Charles Saatchi funds Damien Hirst and the next year in the Saatchi Gallery exhibits his The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine.

John Murphy, Avis Newman, Paula Rego, The Saatchi Gallery, London

Saatchi Gallery, London

In 2005, he was one of the artists exhibited in part 1 of The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

* Saatchi Gallery Additional information on Lucy Skaer including artworks, articles, text panels and full biography

* Saatchi Gallery

In 1991, Charles Saatchi had offered to fund whatever artwork Hirst wanted to make, and the result was showcased in 1992 in the first Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in North London.

In 2000, Hirst's sculpture Hymn ( which Saatchi had bought for a reported £ 1m ) was given pole position at the show Ant Noises ( an anagram of " sensation ") in the Saatchi Gallery.

In April 2003, the Saatchi Gallery opened at new premises in County Hall, London, with a show that included a Hirst retrospective.

A Thousand Years was admired by Bacon, who in a letter to a friend a month before he died, wrote about the experience of seeing the work at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

* Young British Artists – Saatchi Gallery, London ( featuring Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living )

The Saatchi Gallery opened in the main building in 2008.

There is also a suite of exhibition rooms which was home to the Saatchi Gallery from 2003 to 2006, and is now home for the London Film Museum.

On October 21, 2005, the High Court of England and Wales upheld a bid by the owners of the building, Shirayama Shokusan, to have the Saatchi Gallery evicted on grounds of violating its contract, particularly using space outside of the rented area for exhibits.

* Saatchi Gallery Additional information on Yasumasa Morimura including artworks, articles, text panels and full biography

* Further information, images and texts from the Saatchi Gallery

* The Saatchi Gallery-Martin Kippenberger, Gallery In London with images, information, text and biography about Martin Kippenberger

In 2003 they reported Charles Saatchi to the UK Office of Fair Trading, complaining that he had an effective monopoly on art.

On 15 April, the OFT closed the file on the case on the basis that Saatchi was not " in a dominant position in any relevant market.

Also on the board are Tory MPs Virginia Bottomley and Richard Shepherd, as well as Lord Saatchi and Lady Howe '.

Saatchi put on a series of shows called " Young British Artists " starting in 1992, when a noted exhibit was Damien Hirst's " shark " ( The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living ), which became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s, and the symbol of Britart worldwide.

The parent company of the agency group was known as Saatchi & Saatchi PLC from 1976 to 1994, was listed on the London Stock Exchange until 2000 and for a time, was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

2006 – In association with the Guardian newspaper, opened the first ever reader-curated exhibition, showing the work of 10 artists registered on Saatchi Online.

Other sections on Saatchi Online include ; chat, a daily art magazine, a forum, written and video blogs, as well as sections for street art, photography and illustration.

Other spaces on Saatchi Online including a forum, live chat, blogs, videos, photography and illustration.

" The editor-in-chief of the New York Art & Auction magazine, Bruce Wolmer, said: " When the row eventually fades the only smile will be on the face of Charles Saatchi, a master self-promoter.

* Images of Duane Hanson works posted on the Saatchi Gallery, UK, website

* Marcus Harvey on the Saatchi Gallery web site

This bestowed some instant notoriety on Turk, whose work was collected by Charles Saatchi.

* Gavin Turk on BBC4, discussing the impact of Charles Saatchi on the modern art world

Jenny Saville, Torso2, 2004, oil on canvas, 360cm x 294cm, Saatchi Gallery

In 2003, Charles Saatchi launched an attack on the concept of the white wall gallery, calling it " antiseptic " and a " time warp ... dictated by museum fashion ".

In 2009, his painting of Charles Saatchi was banned from the window display of the Artspace Gallery in Maddox Street, London, on the grounds that it was " too controversial for the area ".

The exhibition attracted large audiences, including Charles Saatchi, who bought two of the three works on show.

1997 – Opens Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Gallery at the Royal Academy featuring 42 artists including The Chapman Brothers, Marcus Harvey, Damien Hirst, Ron Mueck, Jenny Saville, Sarah Lucas & Tracey Emin.