What is the painting of Charles Saatchi throttling Nigella Lawson really saying?

Stuckist painter Darren Udaiyan meant to poke fun at the art dealer. But this tasteless painting of a grisly assault has badly backfired

When photographs of Charles Saatchi apparently throttling Nigella Lawson were published in 2013, the public outrage they unleashed left the former Conservative party advertising man vilified and divorced. Saatchi is now best known as a celebrity chef's former husband and as a man who was violent towards a woman in public.

It must come almost as a relief to him to be mocked as the man who "throttles" the art world.

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