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Victor Hugo: Drawn to the Void.(artist)

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From: Art in America
Date: 19990301
Author:VINE, RICHARD

Noted artist Victor Hugo's work was honored with an exhibition entitled 'Shadow of a Hand' at the Drawing center in New York. Hugo's drawings from an 18-year period of exile in the mid-1800s were those selected to be the centerpiece of the exhibition.

France's 19th-century literary giant, exiled for two decades, cultivated a brooding but startlingly inventive graphic-art "avocation. "International shows are now bringing to light the full range of his proto-abstract experiments with technique and materials.

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