A view of Henri Doucet’s art through the lens of a of public collections’ holdings
(Work In Progress)
We’re in the final stages of compiling a catalogue of Doucet’s artworks held in Scandinavian public collections. Since 1928, the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, Danemark, keeps seven of his works; while in Norway, and since 1923, the Nasjonalmuseet has one painting.
This preliminary catalogue is based on historical documentation and stylistic connoisseurship. All the documentation used will be listed in a bibliography. The catalogue is formatted upon a classic catalogue raisonné template, with for each work: technical description, history, exhibition history, publication history, description and related artworks.
For fun, we’re adding some games to it, in the vein of Spot the difference and Happy families. They might allow us to look and see some correspondances, common features, differences, characteristic features, similarities — retained and lost, etc. Each work, we hope, could take part in a family picture: alongside other works from Doucet, works from his friends and contemporaries, etc. We tried to include relevant works from the SMK and Nasjonalmuseet collections as much as possible.
Publication date to be announced here (Summer 2025)
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Henri Doucet, (jeune feportrait of the artist’ sister), c.1910-1914, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, The Fine Art Collections, Oslo
Henri Doucet, Honorine, 1913, Statens Museum for Kunst, CopenhagenHenri Doucet, La Route de Nîmes, 1911-1915, Statens Museum for Kunst, CopenhagenHenri Doucet, Montagnes de l’Ermitage, Provence, 1913, Statens Museum for Kunst, CopenhagenHenri Doucet, Paysans taillant un arbre en fleurs, c.1911-1915, Statens Museum for Kunst, CopenhagenHenri Doucet, Route à Villeneuve-les-Avignon, c.1911-1915, Statens Museum for Kunst, CopenhagenHenri Doucet, (statue de femme à mi-corps), c.1910-1914, Statens Museum for Kunst, CopenhagenHenri Doucet, La cueillette du raisin, c.1912, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
