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Woman with a Fan (French: La Femme à l'Éventail) is a painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger. The work was exhibited in 1914 at Moderni Umeni, S.V.U. Mánes, Prague. A 1914 photograph taken at the exhibition in Prague was published in the magazine Zlatá Praha showing Woman with a Fan hanging next to another work by Metzinger known as En Canot (Im Boot, The Boat), 1913. Donated by Mr and Mrs Sigmund Kunstadter in 1959, Woman with a Fan forms part of the permanent collection in Gallery 391B (Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture) at the Art Institute of Chicago, US.
Jean Metzinger Art Institute of Chicago En Canot (Im Boot, The Boat) En Canot Chicago Moderni Umeni, S.V.U. Mánes Zlatá Praha S.V.U. Mánes