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

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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.

One of the visitors to Freeze was Charles Saatchi, a major contemporary art collector and co-founder of Saatchi and Saatchi, the London advertising agency.

This piece was later bought by Charles Saatchi and included in the successful 1997 Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of London ; it then toured to Berlin and New York.

In 1997 work which Landy had previously sold to Charles Saatchi was included in the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.

In 1991, Wallinger exhibited a series of full length portrait paintings of the homeless called " Capital " at the ICA in London that were bought by Charles Saatchi and later exhibited at his gallery along with Wallinger's life size paintings of racehorses.

Ofili was established through exhibitions by Charles Saatchi at his gallery in north London and the travelling exhibition Sensation ( 1997 ), becoming recognised as one of the few British artists of African / Caribbean descent to break through as a member of the Young British Artists group.

Paula Rego: The Dancing Ostriches from Disney's Fantasia, Marlborough Fine Art, London and Saatchi Collection, London.

Paula Rego: The Dancing Ostriches from Disney's Fantasia, Marlborough Fine Art, London and Saatchi Collection, London.

In 1997, his work was included in Sensation, a touring show of the Charles Saatchi art collection at the Royal Academy, London.

She lives in St John's Wood, London, in a house previously occupied by Reverend John Hugh Smyth-Piggott, and by Charles Saatchi, and which was featured in Sir John Betjeman's 1973 film Metro-land.

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.

Following stints starting as a copywriter at the London offices of Benton & Bowles in 1965, then at Collett Dickenson Pearce and John Collins & Partners, Charles Saatchi teamed up with Art director Ross Cramer and the genesis of what would become Saatchi & Saatchi was born in London in 1967 as the creative consultancy CramerSaatchi.

It was the centrepiece of the show, Stuckist Clowns Doing Their Dirty Work, the first exhibition of the Stuckists in Mayfair, and depicted Saatchi with a sheep at his feet and a halo made from a cheese wrapper.

In February 2004, Charles Saatchi bought a painting of Diana, Princess of Wales by Vine and was credited with " discovering " her.

Saatchi then visited Gambler in a green Rolls Royce and, according to Freedman, stood open-mouthed with astonishment in front of ( and then bought ) Hirst's first major " animal " installation, A Thousand Years, consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding off a rotting cow's head.

Originally a private company, the Gartner Group was launched publicly in the 1980s, then acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi, a London-based advertising agency, and then acquired in 1990 by some of its executives, with funding from Bain Capital and Dun & Bradstreet.

During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

Saatchi arrived at the second show in a green Rolls Royce and, according to Freedman, stood open-mouthed with astonishment in front of ( and then bought ) Hirst's first major " animal " installation, A Thousand Years, consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding off a rotting cow's head.

This brought a developing strain in his relationship with Saatchi to a head ( one source of contention had been who was most responsible for boosting their mutual profile ).

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency network with 140 offices in 76 countries and over 6, 500 staff.

On April 1988, RJR Nabisco fired the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency for their commercial for Northwest Airlines with the pitch that they no longer allow smoking in any of their flights.

Wilson ’ s piece 20: 50, a room entirely filled with oil, became a permanent installation at the Saatchi Gallery ’ s Boundary Road venue.

In an abrupt move, Saatchi sold much of his collection of U. S. art, and invested in a new generation of British artists, exhibiting them in shows with the title Young British Artists.

Saatchi augmented this with his own choice of purchases from art colleges and " alternative " artist-run spaces in London.

More recently Saatchi said, " It ’ s not that Freeze, the 1988 exhibition that Damien Hirst organised with this fellow Goldsmiths College students, was particularly good.