Wednesday, August 22, 2012

No takers for Saatchi's offer to gift a £30m collection to the nation


According to the Guardian, Charles Saatchi's proposal to gift a collection of art worth £30 million to the nation is still without a taker. A proposed deal with the Arts Council has proved elusive and the Tate galleries appear to have rejected the offer as well.

Amongst the works on offer are a collection of Grayson Perry ceramics, the Chapman brothers' Tragic Anatomies, Tracey Emin's My Bed and Richard Wilson's tank of glittering black sump oil, 20:50. Read more...
Image: Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1988, Saatchi Collection