Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
拍品 152 A DIALOGUE THROUGH ART: WORKS FROM THE JAN KRUGIER COLLECTION

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Deux maisons du Moyen-Age

已結束2013年11月5日

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Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Deux maisons du Moyen-Age
signed 'Victor Hugo' (lower right)
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on paper
5 5/8 x 3 5/8 in. (14.3 x 9.3 cm.)

Private collection, France.
Anon. sale, Christie's, Paris, 17 March 2005, lot 444.
Jan Krugier, acquired at the above sale.

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This drawing will be included in the catalogue raisonné of drawings by Victor Hugo being prepared under the direction of Pierre Georgel.

Théophile Gautier summarized Victor Hugo's drawings' force with these words: "If he wasn't a poet, Victor Hugo would be a first-class painter. He stands out in bringing together, but with a somber and darker fantasy, the effects of chiaroscuro seen in Goya or the terror expressed by some of Piranesi's architectures. In the midst of threatening shadows, he knows how to sketch a ray of moonlight or lightning, to bring to life the towers of a demolished burg [...] Many decorators would envy his incredible capacity of creating donjons, old streets, castles and churches in ruins; an out of the ordinary style, an unknown architecture, that is full of love and mistery, whose appearance oppresses like a nightmare" (see Dessins de Victor Hugo, P. Georgel, ed., exh. cat. Villequier-Paris, 1971-1972, p. 22).