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.

Harvey said, " I did it to make Saatchi look friendly and human.

Thomson said it was the Stuckists and not Saatchi who had discovered her.

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.

He said Saatchi was " childish " and " I'm not Charles Saatchi's barrel-organ monkey ...

That July, Hirst said of Saatchi, " I respect Charles.

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.

He said Saatchi was " childish " and " I'm not Charles Saatchi's barrel-organ monkey ...

A gallery spokesman said that Saatchi was distraught at the loss: " It is terrible.

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.

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

On 28 September 2005, the gallery announced a move to new and larger premises in the Duke of York's Headquarters, Chelsea, though Saatchi said it was " tragic " to leave.

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.

" 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.

Director Brian Kennedy said that, although it was due to be funded by the Australian government, it was " too close to the market ", since finance for the Brooklyn exhibition included $ 160, 000 from Saatchi, who owned the work, $ 50, 000 from Christie's, who had sold work for Saatchi, and $ 10, 000 from dealers of many of the artists.

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.

Saatchi said that he had been told by Serota in 2000 that planned extensions to Tate Modern would add 50 % extra display capacity, but that this had been allocated by the time of his offer, necessitating its rejection.

In February 2004, after Vine " rose to fame after being championed by Charles Saatchi ", Thomson said that he was pleased that she had got success, but it was he and the Stuckists, not Saatchi, who had " discovered " Vine.

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.

Also that year he included a painting into the Saatchi Gallery which included the words " British Painting Still Rocks " as reaction to Charles Saatchi's comments that the YBA artists would be nothing more than a footnote in the history of art.

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.

Charles Saatchi and some consequential clients would soon follow including Gallaher Group, Mirror Newspapers, the retailer Dixons and after a competitive pitch, British Airways and its part subsidiary Qantas as well as the Conservative Party, for whom they made the infamous New Labour, New Danger adverts.

From 1987 to 2008, it was a division of Saatchi & Saatchi North America, an advertising agency ( which acquired Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, the original owners ), and would later be acquired by Publicis in 2000.