Although entirely self-taught, Hugo (1802-1885) was a prolific draughtsman, reeling off thousands of sketches – from idle ...

LONDON — French writer Victor Hugo is famous for penning "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Miserables," but less known is his work as an illustrator — now the subject of a new exhibition in ...

Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo grew up, the treatment often looks forward to late 19th century symbolism ...

A curator has brought out the annotated manuscript of Victor Hugo’s world-famous 1862 novel Les Misérables. The ink is still deeply black, as if Hugo had only recently put down his pen ...