Lot 15
  • 15

Victor Hugo

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Victor Hugo
  • Personnages (Acrobates)
  • pen and brush and ink on paper
  • 13 by 19.8cm., 5 1/8 by 7 7/8 in.
  • 13.1 x 19.7 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist (stamped with the Gâtine inventory stamp and numbered 106/544)
Georges Hugo (grandson of the artist)   
François Hugo (son of the above)
Marguerite Hugo (step-sister of the above)
Private Collection
Acquired by the late owner in December 1981

Exhibited

New York, Jan Krugier Gallery; Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Victor Hugo and The Romantic Vision, Drawings and Watercolors, 1990-91, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue
Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Victor Hugo dessinateur, 1999, no. 21, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exh. cat., Berlin, 1999, p. 406, illustrated
The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., Venice, 1999, p. 405, illustrated
Pierre Georgel, 1850, Le Burg à la croix, exh. cat., Paris-Musées, 2007, p. 95, no. 67, illustrated

Condition

Not laid down, the sheet is hinged to the mat at three points along one edge. As visible in the catalogue illustration, there are three connected old tears in a circa 1 by 2cm area in the lower right, and a small puncture in the sheet to the right of one of the figures. There is a handful of scattered faint spots along the upper edge. Presented framed and glazed, the edges of the sheet covered by the mat.
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