It is considered one of the most important contemporary art collections in the world, featuring Tracey Emin’s bed and Grayson Perry’s pots.
So when Charles Saatchi offered to donate the cream of his private collection – valued at upwards of £30 million – to the nation for free, he might have been forgiven for thinking it would be gratefully accepted.
But two years since announcing his generous gift, the collection has yet to find a home.
Instead, the Government has bungled attempts to secure it while a national museum has also passed on the offer.
Saatchi’s bequest includes more than 200 works by several of the world’s leading contemporary artists, among them Jake and Dinos Chapman, the Indian artist Jitish Kallat and Emin, whose unmade bed, My Bed, which came to symbolise the Young British Artist (YBA) movement of the 1990s, is included.
