Camille Pissarro/National Gallery of Art

How The Impressionists Changed Art Markets

… And Started a Perpetual Revolution in Art

by david w. galenson
 

david galenson, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, is the Academic Director of the Center for Creativity Economics at the Universidad del CEMA in Buenos Aires.

Published October 24, 2025

 
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Woman With a Parasol, Madame Monet and her son, Claude Monet, 1875
Claude Monet/National Gallery of Art
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Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy, Georges Seurat, 1888
Georges Seurat/National Gallery of Art
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Roses, Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Vincent Van Gogh/National Gallery of Art
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The Sisters, Berthe Morisot, 1869
Claude Monet/National Gallery of Art
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Fatata te Miti (By the Sea), Paul Gauguin, 1892
Paul Gauguin/National Gallery of Art