1.   Like many well-to-do European collectors, Koerfer was quiet about his art purchases and only rarely lent works to museums.

2.   Over the years, as word has spread that this was the place where all the major European collectors buy great art, Americans have followed.

3.   The buyer was identified only as a European collector.

4.   They are not well known to the public in the United States, but are favorites among European collectors and New York interior designers.

5.   Will the European collectors who have dominated art buying over the last six months feel like traveling to New York for the sales?

6.   Buyers were mostly European private collectors coming from Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Britain.

7.   It surfaced recently when it was bought by a group of European collectors from its American owner, who thought it was a copy.

8.   Kindermann said the painting is being sold by a private European collector who does not wish to be identified.

9.   Kindermann said the painting was sold by a private European collector who did not wish to be identified.

10.   The image, which went for almost eight times the pre-sale estimate, was bought by a private European collector.