Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
Location
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
Mayfair
London
W1J 0BD
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This exhibition runs from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 29th June 2025.
Discover the imaginary worlds of Victor Hugo, one of France’s most famous writers, at this exhibition of his rarely-seen works on paper.
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a leading public figure in 19th-century France. His books Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame were printed worldwide. As both a poet and a politician, during his nearly twenty-year exile in the Channel Islands, he came to symbolise the ideals of the French republic: equality and freedom.
In private, his refuge was drawing. Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic as his writing. His works inspired Romantic and Symbolist poets, and many artists including the Surrealists. Vincent van Gogh compared them to “astonishing things”.
This exhibition follows Hugo’s preoccupation with drawing, from his early caricatures and travel drawings to his dramatic landscapes and his experiments with abstraction. It features some of his finest works on paper, which are rarely on public display and were last seen in the UK over 50 years ago.
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Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
Mayfair
London
W1J 0BD
This exhibition runs from Friday 21st March 2025 to Sunday 29th June 2025.
This event runs over several days/weeks. Dates include:
March 2025
- Fri 21st Mar 2025
(10:00am to 9:00pm - Late closing) - Sat 22nd Mar 2025
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sun 23rd Mar 2025
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Mon 24th Mar 2025
Closed - Tue 25th Mar 2025
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(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Fri 28th Mar 2025
(10:00am to 9:00pm - Late closing) - Sat 29th Mar 2025
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(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Mon 31st Mar 2025
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