Jacques Doucet

Jacques Doucet was a French painter and co-founder of the CoBrA movement, a collective that exploded onto the postwar scene with raw energy and unbridled freedom. Alongside artists like Asger Jorn, Karel Appel, and Pierre Alechinsky, he helped redefine painting as instinctive, spontaneous, and joyfully anarchic. Doucet’s canvases are full of fierce gestures, vibrant colors, and primary forms that pulse with urgency. His art thrives on spontaneity—less about control, more about unleashing. He painted as if to rediscover the primal act of creation itself. 

Restless and uncompromising, Doucet refused polish in favor of immediacy. His paintings speak in shouts, scratches, and bursts of color: images closer to graffiti or dreams than to academic art. 

Rebel. Instinctive painter. CoBrA firestarter. Jacques Doucet embodied the spirit of painting without a safety net.