Victor Hugo’s Lettering Art

November 21, 2008 in art, calligraphy, lettering | No comments

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Nov. 21, 2008 — Victor Hugo produced several thousand drawings during his lifetime. This work went largely unnoticed by the general public — eclipsed by Hugo’s phenomenal success as a man of letters — but it was highly regarded by many artists and art critics. For example, Théophile Gautier wrote, in his preface to Dessins de Victor Hugo (pub. 1862): “If Victor Hugo were not a poet, he would be an artist of the first order.” Other famous admirers of Hugo’s artwork were Eugène Delacroix and Vincent Van Gogh.

Hugo’s drawings and small paintings run the gamut from “what one might expect” — romantic landscapes, forlorn castles, and such — to astonishingly experimental work, Surrealist or Minimalist in nature, that was far ahead of its time.

Victor Hugo was also a creative lettering artist, as can be seen in some of the images below.