Following a distressing childhood, Jacques Doucet became a revolutionary child, eager for freedom, passionate about painting and poetry. In 1941, he travelled to Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire to meet Max Jacob, who strongly encouraged him to follow the path of artistic creation. Doucet then embarked on a painting career and exhibited at the Autumn Salon in 1943 and 1944. Politically engaged, he was arrested during the military occupation of France. After the liberation of Paris, Doucet resumed his work and exhibited at the “Salon des Surindépendants” in 1946 and 1947. During the year…
Following a distressing childhood, Jacques Doucet became a revolutionary child, eager for freedom, passionate about painting and poetry. In 1941, he travelled to Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire to meet Max Jacob, who strongly encouraged him to follow the path of artistic creation. Doucet then embarked on a painting career and exhibited at the Autumn Salon in 1943 and 1944. Politically engaged, he was arrested during the military occupation of France. After the liberation of Paris, Doucet resumed his work and exhibited at the “Salon des Surindépendants” in 1946 and 1947.
During the year 1947, Jacques Doucet was invited together with the Dutch painter Corneille to Budapest, where he exhibited and met with the Europaï Iskola painters. Back in Paris, he joined the Revolutionary Surrealism Group and the CoBrA mouvement, an « international of experimental artists » whose short lifespan lasted from 1948 to 1951. Experimentation and spontaneity were at the core of these artists’ approach which derived its inspiration from childrens’ paintings, graffiti and folk or tribal art. Doucet participated in all the CoBrA exhibitions from the first experimental art show in the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam in 1949, to the ultimate exhibition in Liège in 1951.
After the CoBrA adventure, Doucet moved away from figuration and composed small paintings with vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes in contrasting colors. The painter experienced his contact with matter as a necessity, a spiritual quest as well as a sensual pleasure. Not long after, the use of collage enabled him to “renew his vision”. He combined fragments of works, childrens’ drawings, and magazines, pursuing a vivid thirst for experimentation that led him in 1969/70 to the conception of “petrifications” assembling objects and fragments to be set in resin.
Until the end of his life, in 1994, the shapes of Doucet’s paintings continued to develop, as did the images of lyricism and spirituality that enamate from them. Doucet was engaged in an intimate struggle with his paintings and was constantly retouching them. As the painter would say, “it is when I destroy the painting that it finds its breath and true life”.
Peintures et collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Jacques Doucet, le Cobra français, LAAC (Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine), Dunkerque ; Cobra Museum, Amstelveen ; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper
Jacques Doucet – Collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Tableaux-collages et collages, Jaski Art Gallery, Amsterdam
En route pour le pays de Jacques Doucet, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg
Doucet, 45 ans de création, Galeries Boulakia, Paris
Gouaches et collages, Art Prospect, New York
Doucet, 35 nouvelles gouaches, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Peintures et gouaches, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Bestiaire du quotidien, 1976, Centre d’art et de culture, Cuneo
Peintures, gouaches, pastels, pétrifications, Delta International Art Center, Beirut
Peintures, gouaches, pastels et gouaches-collages, Galerie Rotta, Genoa
40 œuvres sur papier de l’artiste français Cobra Jacques Doucet, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Peintures et collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Peintures, Galerie St-Léger, Geneva
Pétrifications, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Jacques Doucet, peintures et gouaches, Linea, Cuneo
Tableaux-collages, papiers collés ovales, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Peintures, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Peintures et gouaches-collages, Galerie Blanche, Stockholm
Peintures et collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Galerie Les Contemporains, Brussels
Galerie Ariel, Paris
Peintures et gouaches, Galerie Rotta, Genoa
Europai Iskola, Budapest
Cobra hasta 12 años después, Musée d’art contemporain, Santiago du Chili ; Musée d’art moderne, Buenos Aires
Peintres du groupe Cobra, Galerie Ariel Rive Gauche, Paris
Automatismes parallèles, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas
Cobra-Post Cobra, Musée d’art moderne, Ostend
Confrontation I, Doucet-Poliakoff, Galerie Ariel, Paris
Cobra, 40 ans après, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
Cobra, et dix ans après, Fine Arts Museum, Taïpei
Cobra sur papier, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg
Cobra Prints, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York
Action et émotion, peintures des années 1950, National Museum of Art, Osaka
Images et profils des peintres autour du Jazz, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Autour de Michel Ragon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes ; Art Center, Paris
Aftermath : France 1945-54, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1948 Cobra 1951, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Maison de la Culture, Châlon-sur-Saône; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes
Cobra, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Cobra Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
60 peintures pour un musée, Centre culturel du Mexique, Paris
Paris 1937-Paris 1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cobra 30, 1948-1978, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Cobra, Galerie Riis, Trondheim ; Galerie Georges Belcher, San Francisco
L’espace du temps, l’abstraction des années 1950, Maison de la culture, Grenoble
Les artistes solidaires des mouvements de libération des colonies portugaises, Unesco, Paris
Groupe Cobra et autres peintres, Kunstmuseum, Aalborg (Denmark)
Cobra 48’ 51’ 74’, Hôtel de Ville, Brussels
Œuvres graphiques françaises, Szepmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Peinture moderne française, Galerie nationale, Prague
Une aventure de l’art abstrait 50/57/60, Musée Galliera, Paris
Le dessin et les œuvres sur papier en France de Matisse à nos jours, Musée d’art moderne, Paris
Cobra ou la passion de la réalité, Palais des expositions, Lyon
Cinquante ans de collages, Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Étienne
Cobra et après, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Aquarelles et gouaches de maîtres contemporains, Maison de la pensée française, Paris
Jeunes peintres français, The Arts Club, Chicago; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; The Denver Art Museum, Denver; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Rencontre d’octobre à Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
La nouvelle école de Paris, Musée Bridgestone, Tokyo
10 ans de peinture française, Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble
Jeunes peintres, Galerie d’art moderne, Rome ; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels ; Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Peinture internationale contemporaine, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg
Expression et non figuration, Librairie 73, Paris (1ère exposition Cobra à Paris)
IIème exposition internationale d’art expérimental, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Liège
Les mains éblouies, Galerie Maeght, Paris
Exposition internationale d’art expérimental, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Following a distressing childhood, Jacques Doucet became a revolutionary child, eager for freedom, passionate about painting and poetry. In 1941, he travelled to Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire to meet Max Jacob, who strongly encouraged him to follow the path of artistic creation. Doucet then embarked on a painting career and exhibited at the Autumn Salon in 1943 and 1944. Politically engaged, he was arrested during the military occupation of France. After the liberation of Paris, Doucet resumed his work and exhibited at the “Salon des Surindépendants” in 1946 and 1947.
During the year 1947, Jacques Doucet was invited together with the Dutch painter Corneille to Budapest, where he exhibited and met with the Europaï Iskola painters. Back in Paris, he joined the Revolutionary Surrealism Group and the CoBrA mouvement, an « international of experimental artists » whose short lifespan lasted from 1948 to 1951. Experimentation and spontaneity were at the core of these artists’ approach which derived its inspiration from childrens’ paintings, graffiti and folk or tribal art. Doucet participated in all the CoBrA exhibitions from the first experimental art show in the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam in 1949, to the ultimate exhibition in Liège in 1951.
After the CoBrA adventure, Doucet moved away from figuration and composed small paintings with vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes in contrasting colors. The painter experienced his contact with matter as a necessity, a spiritual quest as well as a sensual pleasure. Not long after, the use of collage enabled him to “renew his vision”. He combined fragments of works, childrens’ drawings, and magazines, pursuing a vivid thirst for experimentation that led him in 1969/70 to the conception of “petrifications” assembling objects and fragments to be set in resin.
Until the end of his life, in 1994, the shapes of Doucet’s paintings continued to develop, as did the images of lyricism and spirituality that enamate from them. Doucet was engaged in an intimate struggle with his paintings and was constantly retouching them. As the painter would say, “it is when I destroy the painting that it finds its breath and true life”.
Peintures et collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Jacques Doucet, le Cobra français, LAAC (Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine), Dunkerque ; Cobra Museum, Amstelveen ; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper
Jacques Doucet – Collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Tableaux-collages et collages, Jaski Art Gallery, Amsterdam
En route pour le pays de Jacques Doucet, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg
Doucet, 45 ans de création, Galeries Boulakia, Paris
Gouaches et collages, Art Prospect, New York
Doucet, 35 nouvelles gouaches, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Peintures et gouaches, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Bestiaire du quotidien, 1976, Centre d’art et de culture, Cuneo
Peintures, gouaches, pastels, pétrifications, Delta International Art Center, Beirut
Peintures, gouaches, pastels et gouaches-collages, Galerie Rotta, Genoa
40 œuvres sur papier de l’artiste français Cobra Jacques Doucet, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Peintures et collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Peintures, Galerie St-Léger, Geneva
Pétrifications, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Jacques Doucet, peintures et gouaches, Linea, Cuneo
Tableaux-collages, papiers collés ovales, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Peintures, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Peintures et gouaches-collages, Galerie Blanche, Stockholm
Peintures et collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Galerie Les Contemporains, Brussels
Galerie Ariel, Paris
Peintures et gouaches, Galerie Rotta, Genoa
Europai Iskola, Budapest
Cobra hasta 12 años después, Musée d’art contemporain, Santiago du Chili ; Musée d’art moderne, Buenos Aires
Peintres du groupe Cobra, Galerie Ariel Rive Gauche, Paris
Automatismes parallèles, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas
Cobra-Post Cobra, Musée d’art moderne, Ostend
Confrontation I, Doucet-Poliakoff, Galerie Ariel, Paris
Cobra, 40 ans après, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
Cobra, et dix ans après, Fine Arts Museum, Taïpei
Cobra sur papier, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg
Cobra Prints, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York
Action et émotion, peintures des années 1950, National Museum of Art, Osaka
Images et profils des peintres autour du Jazz, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Autour de Michel Ragon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes ; Art Center, Paris
Aftermath : France 1945-54, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1948 Cobra 1951, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Maison de la Culture, Châlon-sur-Saône; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes
Cobra, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Cobra Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
60 peintures pour un musée, Centre culturel du Mexique, Paris
Paris 1937-Paris 1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cobra 30, 1948-1978, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Cobra, Galerie Riis, Trondheim ; Galerie Georges Belcher, San Francisco
L’espace du temps, l’abstraction des années 1950, Maison de la culture, Grenoble
Les artistes solidaires des mouvements de libération des colonies portugaises, Unesco, Paris
Groupe Cobra et autres peintres, Kunstmuseum, Aalborg (Denmark)
Cobra 48’ 51’ 74’, Hôtel de Ville, Brussels
Œuvres graphiques françaises, Szepmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Peinture moderne française, Galerie nationale, Prague
Une aventure de l’art abstrait 50/57/60, Musée Galliera, Paris
Le dessin et les œuvres sur papier en France de Matisse à nos jours, Musée d’art moderne, Paris
Cobra ou la passion de la réalité, Palais des expositions, Lyon
Cinquante ans de collages, Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Étienne
Cobra et après, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Aquarelles et gouaches de maîtres contemporains, Maison de la pensée française, Paris
Jeunes peintres français, The Arts Club, Chicago; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; The Denver Art Museum, Denver; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Rencontre d’octobre à Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
La nouvelle école de Paris, Musée Bridgestone, Tokyo
10 ans de peinture française, Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble
Jeunes peintres, Galerie d’art moderne, Rome ; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels ; Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Peinture internationale contemporaine, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg
Expression et non figuration, Librairie 73, Paris (1ère exposition Cobra à Paris)
IIème exposition internationale d’art expérimental, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Liège
Les mains éblouies, Galerie Maeght, Paris
Exposition internationale d’art expérimental, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Following a distressing childhood, Jacques Doucet became a revolutionary child, eager for freedom, passionate about painting and poetry. In 1941, he travelled to Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire to meet Max Jacob, who strongly encouraged him to follow the path of artistic creation. Doucet then embarked on a painting career and exhibited at the Autumn Salon in 1943 and 1944. Politically engaged, he was arrested during the military occupation of France. After the liberation of Paris, Doucet resumed his work and exhibited at the “Salon des Surindépendants” in 1946 and 1947. During the year…
Following a distressing childhood, Jacques Doucet became a revolutionary child, eager for freedom, passionate about painting and poetry. In 1941, he travelled to Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire to meet Max Jacob, who strongly encouraged him to follow the path of artistic creation. Doucet then embarked on a painting career and exhibited at the Autumn Salon in 1943 and 1944. Politically engaged, he was arrested during the military occupation of France. After the liberation of Paris, Doucet resumed his work and exhibited at the “Salon des Surindépendants” in 1946 and 1947.
During the year 1947, Jacques Doucet was invited together with the Dutch painter Corneille to Budapest, where he exhibited and met with the Europaï Iskola painters. Back in Paris, he joined the Revolutionary Surrealism Group and the CoBrA mouvement, an « international of experimental artists » whose short lifespan lasted from 1948 to 1951. Experimentation and spontaneity were at the core of these artists’ approach which derived its inspiration from childrens’ paintings, graffiti and folk or tribal art. Doucet participated in all the CoBrA exhibitions from the first experimental art show in the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam in 1949, to the ultimate exhibition in Liège in 1951.
After the CoBrA adventure, Doucet moved away from figuration and composed small paintings with vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes in contrasting colors. The painter experienced his contact with matter as a necessity, a spiritual quest as well as a sensual pleasure. Not long after, the use of collage enabled him to “renew his vision”. He combined fragments of works, childrens’ drawings, and magazines, pursuing a vivid thirst for experimentation that led him in 1969/70 to the conception of “petrifications” assembling objects and fragments to be set in resin.
Until the end of his life, in 1994, the shapes of Doucet’s paintings continued to develop, as did the images of lyricism and spirituality that enamate from them. Doucet was engaged in an intimate struggle with his paintings and was constantly retouching them. As the painter would say, “it is when I destroy the painting that it finds its breath and true life”.
Peintures et collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Jacques Doucet, le Cobra français, LAAC (Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine), Dunkerque ; Cobra Museum, Amstelveen ; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper
Jacques Doucet – Collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Tableaux-collages et collages, Jaski Art Gallery, Amsterdam
En route pour le pays de Jacques Doucet, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg
Doucet, 45 ans de création, Galeries Boulakia, Paris
Gouaches et collages, Art Prospect, New York
Doucet, 35 nouvelles gouaches, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Peintures et gouaches, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Bestiaire du quotidien, 1976, Centre d’art et de culture, Cuneo
Peintures, gouaches, pastels, pétrifications, Delta International Art Center, Beirut
Peintures, gouaches, pastels et gouaches-collages, Galerie Rotta, Genoa
40 œuvres sur papier de l’artiste français Cobra Jacques Doucet, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Peintures et collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Peintures, Galerie St-Léger, Geneva
Pétrifications, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Jacques Doucet, peintures et gouaches, Linea, Cuneo
Tableaux-collages, papiers collés ovales, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Peintures, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Peintures et gouaches-collages, Galerie Blanche, Stockholm
Peintures et collages, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Galerie Les Contemporains, Brussels
Galerie Ariel, Paris
Peintures et gouaches, Galerie Rotta, Genoa
Europai Iskola, Budapest
Cobra hasta 12 años después, Musée d’art contemporain, Santiago du Chili ; Musée d’art moderne, Buenos Aires
Peintres du groupe Cobra, Galerie Ariel Rive Gauche, Paris
Automatismes parallèles, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas
Cobra-Post Cobra, Musée d’art moderne, Ostend
Confrontation I, Doucet-Poliakoff, Galerie Ariel, Paris
Cobra, 40 ans après, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
Cobra, et dix ans après, Fine Arts Museum, Taïpei
Cobra sur papier, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg
Cobra Prints, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York
Action et émotion, peintures des années 1950, National Museum of Art, Osaka
Images et profils des peintres autour du Jazz, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Autour de Michel Ragon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes ; Art Center, Paris
Aftermath : France 1945-54, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1948 Cobra 1951, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Maison de la Culture, Châlon-sur-Saône; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes
Cobra, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Cobra Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
60 peintures pour un musée, Centre culturel du Mexique, Paris
Paris 1937-Paris 1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cobra 30, 1948-1978, Court Gallery, Copenhagen
Cobra, Galerie Riis, Trondheim ; Galerie Georges Belcher, San Francisco
L’espace du temps, l’abstraction des années 1950, Maison de la culture, Grenoble
Les artistes solidaires des mouvements de libération des colonies portugaises, Unesco, Paris
Groupe Cobra et autres peintres, Kunstmuseum, Aalborg (Denmark)
Cobra 48’ 51’ 74’, Hôtel de Ville, Brussels
Œuvres graphiques françaises, Szepmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Peinture moderne française, Galerie nationale, Prague
Une aventure de l’art abstrait 50/57/60, Musée Galliera, Paris
Le dessin et les œuvres sur papier en France de Matisse à nos jours, Musée d’art moderne, Paris
Cobra ou la passion de la réalité, Palais des expositions, Lyon
Cinquante ans de collages, Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Étienne
Cobra et après, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Aquarelles et gouaches de maîtres contemporains, Maison de la pensée française, Paris
Jeunes peintres français, The Arts Club, Chicago; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; The Denver Art Museum, Denver; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Rencontre d’octobre à Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
La nouvelle école de Paris, Musée Bridgestone, Tokyo
10 ans de peinture française, Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble
Jeunes peintres, Galerie d’art moderne, Rome ; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels ; Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Peinture internationale contemporaine, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg
Expression et non figuration, Librairie 73, Paris (1ère exposition Cobra à Paris)
IIème exposition internationale d’art expérimental, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Liège
Les mains éblouies, Galerie Maeght, Paris
Exposition internationale d’art expérimental, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Galerie Dina Vierny
36 rue Jacob 75006 Paris
Open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Galerie Dina Vierny
36 rue Jacob 75006 Paris
Open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.