Woman with a Fan

1913

Jean Metzinger
French, 1883–1956

Status: On View, Gallery 391
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Jean Metzinger
Title: Woman with a Fan
Origin: France
Date: 1913
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.l.: "Metzinger"
Dimensions: 36 1/2 × 25 7/8 in. (92.7 × 65.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Kunstadter
Reference Number: 1959.10
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Selection of French Art 1906–1954, exh. cat. (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1955).
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Selection of Modern Art from Brancusi to Giacometti, exh. cat. (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1957).
The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly LIII:3 (October 1959), p. 10.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 311.
S. E. Johnson, Metzinger: Pre-Cubist and Cubist Works, 1900–1930, exh. cat. (Chicago: International Galleries, 1964), p. 6.
A. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,” Apollo LXXXIV:55 (September 1966), p. 222.
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 232:10 (June 9, 1975), pp. cover and 1000 (ill.).
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 55–56, no. 2G4.
Joann Moser, Jean Metzinger in Retrospective, exh. cat. (Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985), pp. 43 and 53, cat. 38 (ill.).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 17–18, fig. 7, and 162.

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Selection of French Art 1906–1954, February 28–April 9, 1955.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Selection of Modern Art from Brancusi to Giacometti, April 22–May 11, 1957.
New York, American Federation of Arts, In Memoriam, November 1957–November 1958, cat. 21.
Iowa City, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Jean Metzinger in Retrospective, August 31–October 13, 1985, pp. 43 and 53, cat. 38 (ill.); traveled to Austin, Tex., Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, November–December 22, 1985; Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, January 23–March 9, 1986; and Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, March 29–May 25, 1986.

Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin [verso label]. Léonce Rosenberg (1877–1947), Paris [verso label]. K. A. Legat, The Hague, Holland, by 1953 [this and the following according to letter from Galerie Ariel, June 17, 1975, in curatorial file]; Galerie Ariel, Paris, 1953; sold to Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, by early 1954; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.

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