51.   She was also often a lone voice against the longstanding European practice of pillaging sites for Western museums and private collectors.

52.   So the Getty has to wait until private collectors succumb to death or financial distress, and their collections go on sale.

53.   Some objects, lent by private collectors, will be on view for only a year.

54.   Some of these works were sold directly to American museums, and others were sold first to private collectors who eventually donated them to public institutions.

55.   Some parents turn to private collectors, who boast that they can track down deadbeats all over the world.

56.   Thanks to prescient private collectors and farsighted museums, a style of art that was supposed to be temporal has survived the past four decades remarkably intact.

57.   The bidding was driven by several prominent museums but mostly by private collectors.

58.   The few private collectors of the period bought no more than a handful of works.

59.   The Kennedy Library received the tapes in March from Robert White, a private collector of Kennedy memorabilia who had been given the tapes by Lincoln.

60.   The remainder went to a private collector, from whom Rothschild acquired it.