This section includes any fan-related Exhibitions of which we are aware, along with our own FCI Events.
Information regarding other exhibitions is always welcome. Please let us have any information that we could publish on this site by filling in the form on our Contact Us page. …
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As part of the FCI’s AGM in Bournemouth in May 2020 we are staging two exhibitions in conjunction with local museums. The first of these at the Russell Cotes will show fans contemporary with the lifetime of Merton and Annie Russell Cotes
https://russellcotes.com/event/fans/
They will also host a lecture on Fans and Social History to …
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The Fan Circle makes a return, after nearly 20 years, to the coastal town of Bournemouth in 2020. With a sea view, our hotel is close to everything and makes a comfortable base. We shall be hosting two local exhibitions in local museums which will be open to the public.
Our themes will be Victorian …
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Following the successful Beginners Introduction to Fans workshop in 2019, we are delighted to be working with the Northern Branch of the Fan Circle International to bring you an informal but informative Fan Appreciation Seminar. During the day favourite or unusual fans will be discussed and examined, and those attending will be invited to ask …
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The exhibition Jewels! presents 300 dazzling jewels and more than 100 paintings, accessories, dresses and costumes, including over 20 exquisite fans. Together they give an astonishing impression of the wealth and extravagance of the Russian tsars and the St Petersburg high society over the course of 200 years.
See full details at the Amsterdam Hermitage …
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Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge from 5th March 2019 to 12th January 2020.
Showcasing rare and exquisitely decorated fans from the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015, this display reveals the techniques behind the
An exhibition displaying fans made in the Far East for the European market in the 18th and 19th centuries. The popularity of Chinese fans is affirmed by the fact that the French East India Company imported more than 45,000 fans between 1722 and 1741. https://musee.lorient.bzh/programmation/ …
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This exhibition showcases the fan collection of Gérard Lévy (1934–2016), a dealer and connoisseur of Asian art and antique photography who collected fans for pleasure. Born in Morocco, Lévy lived most of his life in France where in 1966 he opened Galerie Gérard Lévy (designed by Le Corbusier) in Paris. An urbane figure who always …
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With the theme of “Fashion, Fragrance and Fans”, FCI Northern members have loaned fans for the whole of June. Fabulous floral lace fans, painted fans, and Japanese fans showing gardens. Perfume bottles complement the fragrance on advertising fans. Relevant fan publications are also on show.
In the adjoining cabinet the late Judith Elliott’s perfume fans …
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The Lady’s Adviser: Love and Courting on Folding Fans
December 8, 2018–June 30, 2019 | Gallery 213
Women’s fans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were often decorated with subjects that were meant to act as conversation starters during social gatherings. Imagery could include any number of themes, from nature to classical mythology, commemorations of …
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