Art of the United Kingdom a preserved shark. The Tate gallery and eventually the Royal Academy also gave them exposure. The influence of Saatchi's generous and wide-ranging patronage was to become a matter of some controversy, as was that of Jay Jopling, the most influential London gallerist. The "Sensation" exhibition of works from the Saatchi Collection was controversial in both the UK and the US, though in different ways. At the Royal Academy press-generated controversy centred on "Myra", a very large image of the murderer Myra Hindley by Marcus Harvey, but when the show travelled to New York City, opening at the Brooklyn Museum in
Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 accused of "crimes against humanity". Instead Saatchi bought it on the secondary market from a private dealer, Eric Franck, at a premium price of £40,000 – Emin had sold it originally for £12,000. She reconciled with Saatchi in 1999. Art world gossip in 2001 was that Saatchi had been offered £300,000 for it; Emin's comment on this was, "He won't re-sell, but the art is his. He can do what he likes with it." Saatchi exhibited the tent in the 1997 "Sensation" exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London; public outrage was centred on Marcus Harvey's portrait of Myra