101.   He lived well at his home at Giverny outside Paris and sold his art directly to dealers and wealthy private collectors.

102.   He said a few museums buy his work, but he sells mostly to private collectors and galleries.

103.   He said the prints had been found in the hands of private collectors in Moscow.

104.   In western Europe and North America, private collectors, circuses and furriers pay big money for smuggled animals.

105.   Investigators suspect some missing cultural treasures find their way to private Western collectors who order the thefts.

106.   It was purchased by a South African private collector, the auction house said.

107.   It was purchased by a private overseas collector at auctionners Phillips.

108.   It had been sold to a private collector by a gallery owner in Munich, Germany.

109.   It includes loans from private collectors and museums in the United States, Mexico, Japan, Iran and several European countries.

110.   Just four years ago, a couple from Milwaukee, Wisconsin discovered an unknown still life by Van Gogh that was later auctioned off to a private collector.