Art collector Saatchi counts his losses after London inferno

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LONDON (AFP) — Contemporary art collector Charles Saatchi was counting his losses after a warehouse fire in east London turned more than 100 of his pieces to ashes.

"They are either damaged utterly or beyond all repair," a spokesman for the Saatchi Gallery told AFP late Wednesday, adding that Saatchi has been in touch with the artists whose pieces have perished.

He said works by Tracey Emin were among the works destroyed, including a tent titled "Everyone I Have Slept With" and a hut known as "The Last Thing I Said To You Was Don't Leave Me Here."

"That's probably the most high-profile loss," the spokesman told AFP.

Other milestones in British modern art, such as "Hell" by brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman, also perished in the blaze Monday at the...