Cleveland developed strengths in areas like German, Indian and Southeast Asian sculpture and in Chinese art.

In her "Ethnographic Museum" series she arranges mergers of African and Asian sculpture and Western body parts, asking: "Who's the primitive now?"

On trips to China in the 1930's to acquire feathers, Mr. Wolff began buying archaic bronzes and Asian sculpture.

He is curious about all kinds of art, from realist painting and Brancusi to Asian and African sculpture.

Complementing the Western art is the dramatically spotlighted Asian sculpture from the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

Its collection includes European and American masterpieces, as well as Asian sculpture.

Among the popular items were Indian and Asian sculptures and other works of art.

Our big museums routinely devote strings of galleries to Egyptian, African, Asian, Greek and Roman sculpture.

"Southeast Asian sculpture is very undervalued," Mr. Rochell said.

John Eskenazi, with South Asian sculpture, is crashing at M. D. Flacks (No. 38).