Seventy years on, etchings rise again
Buying art as an investment has always been a perilous business. Back in the 1920s during the so-called Etching Boom speculating collectors were prepared to pay hundreds of pounds – ie more than the price of an average London house – for single prints by ultra- fashionable artists such as Muirhead Bone, David Young Cameron and James McBey.
The market for etchings collapsed soon after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and now these same prints…