Saatchi Art is an online art gallery and artist network. Saatchi Art is based in

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History

The company was originally known as

Saatchi Online The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the Da ...

. The Saatchi Art marketplace contains original paintings, photography, drawings and sculpture by artists from over 100 countries worldwide. In August 2014, Saatchi Art was acquired by Demand Media, Inc. (now

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Controversies

Charles Saatchi lawsuit

In November 2014

Charles Saatchi Charles Saatchi (; ar, تشارلز ساعتجي; born 9 June 1943) is an Iraqi-British businessman and the co-founder, with his brother Maurice, of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. The brothers led the business – the world's largest a ...

, the owner of

Saatchi Gallery The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the D ...

, initiated legal action in the United Kingdom's Chancery Division of

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against the current owners of Saatchi Art. He demands to stop using the name Saatchi Art due to a breach of an Intellectual Property agreement of February 18, 2010. He also asks to be paid out the share of the profit made by using the name Saatchi Art from the moment of alleged breach.

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