Doris Lockhart Saatchi
American art collector (1937–2025)
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Doris Jean Lockhart Saatchi (February 28, 1937 – August 6, 2025) was an American art collector. She and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi were major figures in promoting postwar American art and the Young British Artists.[1][2]
Life and career
Born Doris Jean Lockhart in Memphis, Tennessee, on February 28, 1937, she grew up mainly in Scarsdale, New York, and was educated at Scarsdale High School.[1] She attended the Sorbonne and Smith College, graduating from the latter in 1958.[1] She moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s, and married Charles Saatchi in 1973, after her first marriage, to racing driver Hugh Dibley, ended in divorce.[1]
The Saatchis began collecting art in the 1970s.[1] In 1985 they opened a museum, the Saatchi Gallery, to showcase their collection.[1][3] They divorced in 1990.[1]
Saatchi died from kidney disease at a London hospital, on August 6, 2025, at the age of 88.[1]