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.

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.

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.

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 then traces the history of the group from origins in 1979 to its foundation in 1999, reviews " A Dysfunctional Decade of Saatchi Art ", describes Stuckist demonstrations at the Turner Prize and gives background on artists who have left the Stuckists — co-founder Billy Childish, Stella Vine and Gina Bold.

In 2008, Publicis transferred The Program Exchange from the Saatchi & Saatchi subsidiary to its ZenithOptimedia subsidiary ; the logo was then changed to reflect this change.

The show was visited by Charles Saatchi, Norman Rosenthal and Nicholas Serota, thanks to the influence of his Goldsmiths ' lecturer Michael Craig-Martin.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

* Cooling Gallery, London, 1993, when Saatchi bought all her works.

In 2004, Charles Saatchi bought Hi Paul can you come over I'm really frightened ( 2003 ), a painting by her of Diana, Princess of Wales, which provoked media controversy, as did a subsequent painting of drug victim, Rachel Whitear.

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

Talk PR Limited acquired 49 per cent of their fashion business from M & C Saatchi in 2010 and M & C Saatchi Agency Pty Ltd ( Australia ) bought back 20 per cent of theirs.

M & C Saatchi bought a 25 % stake in the social media agency Human Digital in March 2011.

Saatchi became not only Hirst's main collector, but also the main sponsor for other YBAs – a fact openly acknowledged by Gavin Turk.

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.

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 )

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

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, 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.

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

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

In October 2006 the Saatchi Gallery in association with The Guardian newspaper opened the first ever reader-curated exhibition, showing the work of 10 Saatchi Online artists.

The first public display of " Photographic " Déchirage ( the tearing of layers of digital photographs to create a distinctive three-dimensional image ) was at the Art of Giving exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in 2010.

Their work was first purchased by Charles Saatchi in 1990 and 1991 from exhibitions at Maureen Paley Interim Art, London.

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.

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

In 1971 he was one of the first account handlers at Saatchi & Saatchi.