The sale of an internet entrepreneur and philanthropist’s art collection has raised almost £1 million, most of which will go ...

Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a towering author and poet, but his strange work is more interesting and ...

Arts and crafts charity boosted by sale of Rembrandt etching for £225,200 - The sale raised money for the Hugo Burge ...

Mention the name “Victor Hugo” and most people immediately think of his masterpiece Les Misérables, famously adapted into the ...

One of the 19th century’s greatest writers, Hugo also found time to produce art admired by founder of surrealism Andre Breton ...

Sculptor Antony Gormley and Professor of French literature, Catriona Seth discuss Victor Hugo's visual art with Tom Sutcliffe. Victor Hugo was a 19th century cultural colossus, known for monumental ...

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The painting 'Octopus' is displayed during a media preview of the Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo exhibition, at the Royal Academy Of Arts, in London, Tuesday, March 18, ...

A giant mushroom towers over a blasted landscape. A rampant octopus performs otherworldly semaphore with improbably knotted ...

Sulpice, the Paris skyline symbolises the legacy left behind by Victor Hugo. Ahead of a new show opening at the Royal Academy, Michael Hodges follows the path of the celebrated French writer and ...

When the French novelist died in 1885, he left behind The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables – and a fragile cache of jaw-dropping art ...

“..Victor's paintings are carefully considered and controlled – the control of a gifted and unique painter with much more to tell... ” ...