Master Drawings New York 2019
January 25 - Fabruary 2, 2019
Victor Hugo (French 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), which he produced by chance techniques such as by soaking or turning the paper, allowing the ink to pool into spontaneous shapes and using making impressions of various objects as stencils.