21.   They certainly give a dramatic sense of an impressive base that a new generation of American collectors is building on.

22.   When asked if Mallet was expanding into paintings, he said that it was not but that he was acting as an agent for an American collector.

23.   American collector John Young of Honolulu donated the Shiva head to the academy shortly before his death several years ago, said his daughter, Deborah Young.

24.   Dealers said the global economic slowdown barely touched the high end of the art market, but American collectors were becoming an ever greater force.

25.   It was the first Giacometti to be cast in bronze and the first to enter the Venice collection of American collector Peggy Guggenheim.

26.   Italian officials are enlisting State Department help in their effort to curb the pillaging of coveted antiquities by American collectors, dealers and museums.

27.   Italian authorities are weary of watching coveted antiquities disappear into the hands of American collectors, and they are asking the State Department for help.

28.   Italy is seeking the return of priceless Greek marble artifacts from an American collector who allegedly bought them after they had been stolen from an archaeological site in Sicily.

29.   Some items, such as Soviet-built MIG jet fighters sold for spare parts or scrap, also are popular among American collectors, he said.

30.   The art world balked in France but American collectors applauded the fresh, adventurous approach.