51.   The Guggenheim bought the painting from the artist, who melded his own blown-up photographs with commercial images.

52.   The Getty bought that painting three years later for an undisclosed sum when the overheated art market had cooled.

53.   The Getty recently bought the painting from a private European collection.

54.   The implication was that the National Gallery was still trying to buy the painting even though it had theoretically been sold.

55.   The museum did not buy the painting directly from Kameyama.

56.   The painting was bought by an unidentified European foundation.

57.   The papers contend that Marlborough bought paintings outright from Bacon for well below fair market value and sold them for several times as much within months.

58.   The most likely explanation, he said, was that the painting was bought from some dealer who had acquired it from German spoils of war.

59.   The painting was bought from the Pace Wildenstein Gallery in Manhattan and had been in the respected collection belonging to Burton and Emily Tremaine, who are Manhattan collectors.

60.   They started buying paintings, and their German roots meant many works from that country.