Fall in Popularity
Etching as a collected and therefore as a practised art appears to have died with the Great Depression. Without a large group of collectors many artists returned to their canvases. Etchings fell hugely in value until the 1980s when a new market (albeit a small one) began to develop for what is now seen as a small but important tributary of the stream of 19th and 20th century art.
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Famous quotes containing the words fall in, fall and/or popularity:
“Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 10:8.
“To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.”
—Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936)
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—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)