Doris Lockhart Saatchi

Doris Jean Lockhart Saatchi 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.

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. She attended the Sorbonne and Smith College, graduating from the latter in 1958. 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.
The Saatchis began collecting art in the 1970s. In 1985 they opened a museum, the Saatchi Gallery, to showcase their collection. They divorced in 1990.
Saatchi died from kidney disease at a London hospital, on August 6, 2025, at the age of 88.