Charles
Saatchi (born June 9, 1943) is a British businessman and founder with
his brother Maurice of the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, and
led that business - the world's largest advertising agency in the 1980s
- until they were forced out in 1995. In the same year the Saatchi brothers formed a new agency called M & C Saatchi. Charles
is also known as an art collector and owner of the Saatchi gallery, and
in particular for his sponsor young British Artists (YBAs), including
Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.Charles Saatchi is the second of four children born to Nathan Saatchi and Daisy Ezer, a wealthy Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad, Iraq. The name "Saatchi" comes from the Arabic for Iraq "watchmaker",
Charles Saatchi brothers' are David (born 1937), Maurice Nathan (born 1946) and Philip (born 1953). Nathan is a textile trader and in 1947, he anticipated cost tens of thousands of Iraqi Jews who would soon make to avoid persecution and his family moved to Finchley, London Nathan purchased two textile mills in north London, and after a time rebuilt a thriving business. The family will settle into a home with eight bedrooms on Hampstead Lane in Highgate.
In 1969, at age twenty-six, Saatchi bought his first work of art by Sol LeWitt, New York minimalism. Lisson Gallery Saatchi initially how in Marylebone, London, which specializes in minimalist works, he bought the entire show by Robert Mangold. On a visit to Paris in 1973 with his first wife, Doris Lockhart, he bought a realist work by British artist David Hepher, a detailed description of realist suburban home. In the early 1980s, Doris and Saatchi bought 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) cement floors and steel-girded warehouse at 98A Boundary Road in the London suburb of St John's Wood housing. The Saatchi Gallery opened to the public in February 1985, shows the Saatchi art has been collected.
At one point the Saatchi collection contains eleven works of Donald Judd, twenty-one by Sol LeWitt, twenty-three by Anselm Kiefer, Andy Warhols seventeen and twenty-seven by Julian Schnabel.
Taste has mutated from "School of London", through American abstraction and minimalist, with a young British artist, whose work I first saw at the exhibition Freeze. In 1991, he turned to the New York art world with two major acquisitions by new British artists. He was instrumental in launching his career in 1992 Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn brings to the forefront of the art world. Famous as the patron peaked in 1997 when part of his collection as shown at the Royal Academy Sensation exhibition, which traveled to Berlin and New York headlines and causing a lot of offense (for example, to the families of the children murdered by Myra Hindley) and consolidate position YBAs.Charles Saatchi by Paul Harvey
In 2009, he published the book My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I'm A Artoholic. subtitled "Everything You Need to Know About Art, Ads, Life, God And Other Mysteries And Is not Afraid To Ask", Saatchi presents answers to some questions posed by members of the public and the art fraternity. From November to December 2009 he had a BBC television program called School of Saatchi where he gives aspiring young artists a chance to showcase their work. He did not make an appearance in the program, only communicating through an assistant. Artists including John Keane and Paul Harvey has painted pictures of Saatchi.
In July 2010, Charles Saatchi and Saatchi Gallery donated more than 200 works of art to the British public.
