Victor Hugo: Astonishing Drawings

Victor Hugo was one of France’s greatest writers and human rights advocates. In private, his refuge was drawing. Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic as his writing. On the occasion of the exhibition Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo held at the Royal Academy of Arts, curator Sarah Lea, Gérard Audinet, Director of the Maisons Victor Hugo (Paris and Guernsey) and Bradley Stephens, Professor of French Literature at the University of Bristol will discuss Hugo’s imaginary worlds.