Hey bulldog: Saatchi buy has less sale bite

Renowned as he is for promoting – indeed, creating – markets in art, advertising mogul Charles Saatchi appears to have over-estimated the taxidermy market when bidding at the sale of the Will Fisher Collection at Christie’s South Kensington in February 2012.

He famously bid £15,500 (£19,375 including premium) for a late 19th or early 20th century taxiderm…

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