Waldemar Januszczak

Waldemar Januszczak has been the Guardian’s art critic since 1977. His most recent television film examined the representation of the face of Christ through the ages. The Saatchi collection has been catalogued in four volumes, compiled by a set of art-world notables and entitled Art of Our Time.

Letter

Saatchi and Sartchi

21 March 1985

SIR: For a former art historian, Nicholas Penny suffers from remarkably foggy vision (Letters, 18 April). Had he read what I actually wrote, he might have spared himself all that shrill indignation and spared your readers his misrepresentations of my text. Nowhere in the piece do I declare that art and commerce have never enjoyed a fruitful relationship. Nor do I assume for one moment that they cannot....

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