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.

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

Saatchi said that the matter only became an issue because Chia " had a psychological need to be rejected in public " and is now " most famous for being dumped ", but that he had only ever owned seven Chia's, which he sold back to Chia's two dealers, who re-sold them easily to museums or notable collectors.

He was one of the founders of Saatchi & Saatchi in 1970, became chairman of the UK agency in 1982 and was appointed chairman of Saatchi and Saatchi International in 1986.

He later became executive creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Worldwide and Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi plc.

He became Group account director and was subsequently appointed chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi Europe with additional responsibility for the London agency.

He founded Saatchi & Saatchi in 1970 and became its chairman in 1980.

The Stuckist art group staged their first demonstration against the prize, dressed as clowns, describing it as an " ongoing national joke " and " a state-funded advertising agency for Charles Saatchi ", adding " the only artist who wouldn't be in danger of winning the Turner Prize is Turner ", and concluding that it " should be re-named The Duchamp Award | archivedate = 8 May 2007

( Tracey Emin was initially hostile to Saatchi and only relented for the 1997 Sensation show.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

At this time Hirst bought back 12 works from Saatchi ( a third of Saatchi's holdings of Hirst's early works ), through Jay Jopling, reportedly for more than £ 8 million.

On 24 May 2004, a fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection, including 17 of Hirst's, although the sculpture Charity survived, as it was outside in the builder's yard.

In December 2004, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living was sold by Saatchi to American collector Steve Cohen, for $ 12 million (£ 6. 5 million ), in a deal negotiated by Hirst's New York agent, Gagosian.

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

Saatchi, said that most YBAs would proved " nothing but footnotes " in history, and sold works from his YBA collection, beginning in December 2004 with Hirst's iconic shark for nearly £ 7 million ( he had bought it for £ 50, 000 in 1991 ), followed by at least twelve other works by Hirst.

The Saatchi Gallery opened in the main building in 2008.

Charles Saatchi dominated the contemporary art market in Britain during the 1980s and the 1990s ; the subtitle of the 1999 book Young British Artists: The Saatchi Decade uses of the name of the private collector to define an entire decade of contemporary art production.

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.

In 2000, the studio was bought by a consortium including advertising executive and art collector Charles Saatchi.

These proved a critical success, being shown in Germany and the United States, as well as attracting the attention of collector Charles Saatchi.

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 & Saatchi was founded by brothers Maurice ( now Lord Saatchi ) and art collector Charles in 1970.

David Lee said: " Charles Saatchi has all the hallmarks of being a dealer, not a collector.

* Charles Saatchi, advertising executive and art collector ( born in Iraq )

Hirst had already sold a number of works to the influential collector Charles Saatchi, but Jopling enabled the artist to realise more ambitious projects including the sculpture ' The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living ' and more recently the diamond skull ' For the Love of God '.

Saatchi, an art collector, attended Freeze and purchased a piece of art by Mat Collishaw.

It was there that the work of the Young British Artists caught the attention of the collector Charles Saatchi.

At the end of her postgraduate education, the leading British art collector, Charles Saatchi, purchased her entire senior show.

More recently the artist, Tracey Emin, sold her Whitstable beach hut to the collector, Charles Saatchi, for £ 75, 000.

* Charles Saatchi, advertising executive and art collector

" However, the debate was muted by the controversy surrounding Tourism Board contracts going to the public relations firm Saatchi and Saatchi, whose World CEO Kevin Roberts, also an advocate of the silver fern flag, was a good friend of Shipley.

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.

Saatchi also sold all but one work by Sam Taylor-Wood ( he showed five in the Sensation show ).

Users may also be featured in the Saatchi Online stall at various art fairs.

They also picketed the opening of The Triumph of Painting claiming that Saatchi had stolen their ideas.

Within a month senior executives Jeremy Sinclair, Bill Muirhead, David Kershaw, and a number of Saatchi and Saatchi's London management and creative staff also resigned to join Maurice in a new business which would become known as M & C Saatchi.

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 ".

In 2010, a founder of the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising firm, said that Haughey had asked for a ‘ a new image ’ similar to the one provided for Margaret Thatcher for the 1979 general election.

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 ).

Hirst had sold these pieces to Saatchi in the early 1990s for rather less, his first installations costing under £ 10, 000.

McGruff the Crime Dog is an anthropomorphic cartoon bloodhound created by Saatchi & Saatchi through the Ad Council for the National Crime Prevention Council for use by American police in building crime awareness among children.

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.

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.