During the 1980's, Japanese collectors were very active in the market for European art, especially as purchasers of nineteenth-century Impressionist paintings. This striking pattern surely reflects a specific preference on the part of many Japanese collectors for certain aesthetic attributes they found in nineteenth-century Impressionist paintings.

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Impressionist paintings first became popular among art collectors in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century.

During the 1980's, the Japanese economy underwent a sustained expansion that was unprecedented in the country's recent history.

Several nineteenth-century Impressionist painters adopted certain techniques and visual effects found in Japanese prints that are highly esteemed in Japan.

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During the 1960's and the 1970's, the prices of nineteenth-century Impressionist paintings often exceeded the prices of paintings by older European masters.

During the 1980's, collectors from Japan and around the world purchased many paintings and prints by well-known twentieth-century Japanese artists.

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