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Jacques Doucet

French fashion designer and art collector (1853-1929)

  • Jacques-Antoine Doucet
  • Jacques Antoine Doucet

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With Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris, until 1914; French government, sequestered Kahnweiler stock, 1914-21; 1st Kahnweiler sequestration sale, Hôtel Drouot, June 13-14, 1921, no. 90, (illus. p. 26). With Paul Guillaume, Paris (from Kahnweiler sale?), before 1929 [1]; Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), Paris and Neuilly, until his death in 1929 [2]; by inheritance from her husband to Madame Jacques Doucet (Jeanne Roger), Neuilly, 1929; sold to Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York (stock no. 6474), September 15, 1937 [3]; sold to Louise and Walter C. Arensberg, Los Angeles, July 29, 1941 [4]; gift to PMA, 1950.1. See illus. in Carl Einstein, "Notes sur le Cubisme," Documents, no. 3, June 1929, p. 149 (as "anciennement Collection Paul Guillaume").2. A 1930 photograph of the painting hanging in Doucet's rue Saint-James studio in Neuilly, is published in François Chapon, Mystère et splendeurs de Jacques Doucet, Paris, 1984. Doucet was a couturier and art collector/patron who also owned Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon".3. Included in the 1937 Seligmann exhibition, "Twenty Years in the Evolution of Picasso," no. 8, which notes the Jacques Doucet provenance. According to Chapon (p. 386, note 92), Madame Doucet sold this painting, along with other Picassos, to Seligmann in 1937. (English)

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