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

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 ".

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

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 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.

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

* Saatchi Gallery Additional information on Jenny Saville including artworks, articles, text panels and full biography

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 ".

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

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.

In 1992, Charles Saatchi staged a series of exhibitions of Young British Art, the first show included works by Sarah Lucas, Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst.

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.

In 2005, Saatchi changed direction, announcing a year-long, three-part series ( subsequently extended to two years and seven parts ), The Triumph of Painting.

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

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.

He has curated Stuckist shows, organised demonstrations against the Turner Prize, run an art gallery, stood for parliament and reported Charles Saatchi to the OFT.

The subject of over 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group shows internationally, Katz has since been honoured with numerous retrospectives at museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ; Brooklyn Museum, New York ; the Jewish Museum, New York ; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin ; Colby College Museum of Art, Maine ; Staaliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden ; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga and the Saatchi Gallery, London ( 1998 ).

In November launched a new section within Saatchi Online exclusively for art students, called Stuart.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In November 2004, in an interview in The Art Newspaper, Charles Saatchi said that the previous year he had phoned Serota and offered to donate his entire £ 200m collection to the Tate, including key works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas and other Young British Artists, which the Tate was in need of but lacked funds to buy.

It was subsequently exhibited in the first of the Young British Artists exhibitions at the Saatchi Collection, Boundary Road in 1992, and again in the 1997 Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.

Lucas ’ s work has been included in major surveys of new British art in the last decade including Brilliant !— New Art From London at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1995, Sensation ( Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy in 1997 ), and Intelligence — New British Art, 2000, at Tate Britain.

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

In 1997, Billingham was included in the exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Art which showcased the art collection of Charles Saatchi and included many of the Young British Artists.

In the early-1990s, Saatchi altered his focus to emerging British art.

* Sarah Kent, " Shark Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s ", Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 2003, ISBN 0-85667-584-9.

* Shark Infested Waters, The Saatchi Collection Of British Art In The 90's

* Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, ex-chairman of the British Conservative Party

Charles Saatchi later commented " Many of these pieces are great personal favourites and irreplaceable in British Art.

* Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, advertising executive and former chairman of the British Conservative Party