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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is known as one of the greatest writers of all time. He was also an accomplished draftsman and produced a lesser known but remarkable body of works on paper. His idiosyncratic style of draftsmanship produced works that vacillate between the depiction of landscapes and architecture and the rendering of abstract forms and taches (stains). He produced these by chance techniques such as by soaking or turning the paper, allowing the ink to pool into spontaneous shapes that gave impressions of various objects.

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