IT seems that a renewed enthusiasm for drawing may be making its way through the art world and one wonders whether that could translate into a growth in new collectors. Fifty years ago, the market for English watercolours was heating up; they began to make prices unseen since the late 19th century. Dealers abounded and for years, from 1986, there was an enthusiastically received annual specialist fair in London. However, the practice of drawing, once an essential part of education, was disappearing, perhaps most of all in art schools.
In Paris, Christine Phal and Carine Tissot, founders of the Drawing