Charles Saatchi

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Charles Saatchi (born June 9, 1943 in Baghdad , Iraq ) is a British art dealer, collector and patron.

Life

Saatchi comes from an Iraqi Jewish family who emigrated to Great Britain in 1947 . After completing his studies, he founded the international advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi with his brother Maurice Saatchi in 1970 . Both left their agency in 1995 and founded M&C Saatchi. This advertising network is also active worldwide. In autumn 2006 Charles Saatchi sold his last stake in M&C Saatchi.

Charles Saatchi is partly responsible for the rise of Young British Artists and founder of the Saatchi Gallery , which can be visited without an entrance fee. One of the best-known works in his collection until 2004 was the six-meter-long “ The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living ”, a formaldehyde solution preserved tiger shark by the British artist Damien Hirst , which he gave to hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen sold for 6.5 million pounds (9.3 million euros). With this, Saatchi not only made a profit of 9,225,000 euros, but also made Hirst - at the time - the second most expensive contemporary artist after Jasper Johns .

If he likes an artist's work, then he will buy a lot of his work and do it publicly. He says, “I buy art that I like. I buy them to show in exhibitions. Then, if I like it, I'll sell it and buy more art. "

On the night of May 24, 2004, he lost more than 140 works from his collection in a fire in a London warehouse.

Charles Saatchi's first marriage to the American Doris Lockhart. His marriage to television chef Nigella Lawson in 2003 ended in a war of divorce in 2013 after an incident of domestic violence documented by a paparazzo .

Web links

Commons : Charles Saatchi  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Art of Being Charles Saatchi , Forbes Magazine, Susan Adams, December 28, 2009
  2. ↑ Foreseeable disaster? ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in art - the art magazine , 09/2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  3. ↑ British TV cook Nigella Lawson: The deep fall of the kitchen fairy at spiegel.de, accessed on December 4, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Saatchi, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British advertiser and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad , Iraq