About This Artwork

Jean Metzinger
French, 1883–1956

Woman with a Fan, 1913

Oil on canvas
36 1/2 x 25 7/8 in. (92.7 x 65.7 cm)
Signed, l.l.: "Metzinger"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Kunstadter, 1959.10

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Iowa City, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Jean Metzinger in Retrospective, August 31–October 13, 1985, no. 38; traveled to Austin, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, November 2–December 28, 1985; and Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, January18–September 3, 1986.

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Selection of French Art 1906-1954, February 28–April 9, 1955.

Publication History

James A. Speyer, “Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture,” Apollo LXXIV (Sep 1966), p. 222.

Ownership History

Herwarth Walden, Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, possibly acquired directly from artist [verso]. Leonce Rosenberg Collection, by 1924 [See Verso Label]. K.A. Legat, The Hague, Holland [letter in curatorial file from Galerie Ariel]. Galerie Ariel, Paris, 1953 [See letter in curatorial file]. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, early 1954 [see letter in curatorial file]. Sold to the Art Institute, 1959.