Now the museum wants to sell the painting and says it has a buyer who will pay $19 million.

She said the museum also wanted to preserve the mummy better.

"If the museum wants us, we will go to court for them," he said.

It never occurred to many people that museums would want them.

The museum did not want him associated with anything so racy, she said.

If a museum wants to acquire art, it has to get money and convince people to give things.

The museum wanted to build an extension and started an appeal.

Do museums really want to get in the middle of product wars?

The last thing the museum wanted to do, officials said, was harm the market for the artists' work if the pieces failed to sell.

The museum also wanted to compare the sculptures more closely.