"Everyone at the Saatchi Gallery is very relieved as are all the artists in the show, " the spokeswoman said.

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But during a visit to the Saatchi Gallery in London, he realized that he, too, could concentrate on unknown artists, especially in his home country.

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The judges who chose his portrait as the winner included Saatchi Gallery director Rebecca Wilson and illustrator Axel Scheffler, well known for his work on The Gruffalo.

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Damien Hirst told me that it was Saatchi's gallery that jolted him into action.

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The Saatchi art grabbed gallery visitors by the throat and shook them.

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In 2003 Saatchi moved his gallery to a spot on the Thames but got into a tussle with landlords and exited the place two years later.

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Along with the gallery, Saatchi runs an art Web site packed with reviews, museum and gallery listings, blogs, links to schools and grants, and a huge populist online marketplace where any artist can hawk his wares.

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To take only the two most obvious examples, Sir Nicholas Serota, a former young Turk, presides at the new Tate, Britain's most popular gallery, and Charles Saatchi's once shocking collection of Brit art is on display in museum-space that he colonised in London's staid old County Hall upriver.

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The gallery is owned by the art collector Charles Saatchi, who has become a champion of modern art in Britain, and the photographs are part of Mr Saatchi's private collection.

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In 1985 Saatchi opened his first public venue, in a spare, white gallery in the leafy London neighborhood of St.

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