1.   Jewish collectors in the United States were the first to understand and buy his work.

2.   Jewish collectors and art dealers were, in fact, the primary target of Nazi confiscations.

3.   Many of them, including the best-known, are believed to have been once owned by Jewish collectors and dealers.

4.   No one much mentions the Hungarian Jewish collectors, whom the Nazis exterminated after seizing their art, which was then seized in turn by the Red Army.

5.   Research by his former girlfriend, Elizabeth White, discovered that the painting was looted by the Nazis from a French Jewish collector, Adolphe Schloss.

6.   The works, the government says, were never reclaimed by the families or estates of their original owners, many of them Jewish collectors.

7.   De Pierrebourg cautioned that no one knows how many of the works were stolen from Jewish collectors.

8.   Last week, it was returned to Francis Warin, the great-nephew of prominent Jewish collector Alphonse Kann.

9.   The Pushkin is displaying art from Jewish collectors -- victims, not aggressors in the war.