Creating Modern Art: The Changing Careers of Painters in France from Impressionism to Cubism

Evidence from the twentieth-century auction market is used to examine the relationship between artists' ages and the value of their paintings for a group of artists' ages and the value of their paintings for a group of artists, including Cezanne and Picasso, who dominated that early development. This will allow a test of the hypothesis that this relationship changed systematically during the first century of that art.