1.   And many experts in looted art works hope the Botticelli and Rembrandt sales will serve as a somber warning.

2.   And the government has invited the estates and families of the original owners to make their claims on the looted art.

3.   But looted art is the biggest unresolved Holocaust-era matter, and the trickiest.

4.   Kline, their attorney, who has several major successes recovering looted art for victims, obtained a settlement last year on a Botticelli the family once owned.

5.   Nowadays, with a public accounting about the disposition of looted Nazi art well underway, most major museums would indeed look a gift horse in the mouth.

6.   Osio is seeking looted art at other museums in the United States, France and Germany that he declined to name.

7.   That conference is likely to focus on looted art works.

8.   The new international agreements requiring the return of stolen property are important because traffic in looted art is bigger than ever.

9.   The Nierenberg case is also complicated by the looted art held by the Russians.

10.   The Soviet Union acquired the looted art and documents a half century ago when Soviet troops swept through eastern and central Europe.