VERY often, the preview and opening days of the Paris Salon du Dessin coincide with a first waft of spring and, this year, it was perfectly blue, sunny and even warm enough to risk a Ricard outside a café. More to the point, the standard of the drawings on offer was high and sales were being made. Drawings at such a level are not likely to be cheap, but connoisseurship is not dead in this corner of the market and, as usual, the preview was not merely packed, but packed with knowledgeable and enthusiastic collectors.
This year, although there were still not many
