French artists, such as Picasso, Manet, and Seurat. Analysis of the textbooks reveals that art historians do not consider the … American artists to be less important than their French predecessors, or judge the Americans' innovations to be less important … primary methods of showing and selling fine art reduced the incentive for artists to produce important individual works …

There have been two very different life cycles for great artists: some have made their greatest contributions very …

puzzle: why do some of the greatest artists not produce famous paintings, and why do some relatively minor artists produce … experimental and conceptual painters. Experimental artists work incrementally, their innovations appear gradually, and they … generally do their best work late in their careers; conceptual artists innovate more suddenly, produce individual breakthrough …

auction records, we estimate the relationship between artists' ages and the value of their paintings for two successive … cohorts of modern American painters. We find that a substantial decline occurred over time in the age at which these artists …

a painting and the artist's age at the date of its execution. The econometric estimates show that artists born before … artists born after 1850 - including Picasso, L‚ger, and Braque - were more likely to have done their most valuable work at … artists' most valuable work has also been that most highly regarded by scholars. I argue that the change over time in the …

Using transactions from fine art auctions for 42 leading American contemporary artists I estimate the relationship … between the value of a painting and the artist's age at the date of its execution. The econometric estimates show that artists … born before 1920 were likely to have done their most valuable work late in their careers, while in contrast artists born in …

-practicing entities (NPEs) as either "benign middlemen", who help to reallocate IP to where it is most productive, or "stick-up artists …