Saatchi is not expected but
his wife Nigella Lawson is - and the public will enter for free from Thursday.
When the show, The Triumph of Painting, opened at the Saatchi Gallery on 25 October 2005, the Stuckists mounted a picket outside, handing leaflets to the incoming guests (who included Saatchi's
wife Nigella Lawson), and displaying placards stating, «Stuckism leads, Saatchi follows» and «Stuckism in 1999 is Saatchi in 2005».
Cynicism abounds, and the statement delivered to the press by the Saatchi Gallery reads as though it has been hastily assembled from a whimsical idea conceived by Saatchi over breakfast with celebrity chef
wife Nigella Lawson based on what his legacy would be fifty years from now.
His very public exposure in an act of violence towards his then
wife Nigella Lawson in 2013 did not exactly leave him with a reputation as one of the great feminists of our time.
Not exact matches
Not long ago, the pages of our national papers were smattered with images of Charles Saatchi apparently throttling his
wife of ten years,
Nigella Lawson, while dining at Scott's restaurant in Mayfair.
The
Nigella Lawson choking by Charles Saatchi in a public restaurant was slightly different as it at least had a social message to go with it, being it's not cool to choke your
wife.
Also on show in Go West are portraits by the punk guitarist Paul Harvey, of Charlotte Church and
Nigella Lawson,
wife of art collector Charles Saatchi.
Nigella's PR machine ordered Saatchi to confess publicly his «shame and humiliation» at assaulting his
wife — and
Nigella agreed with this plan.