Members can now benefit from a major project we have recently undertaken to digitise all Fan Circle Newsletters and Bulletins since inception in 1975. These are now available to members ONLY in our special Members’ Area. …
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If you are visiting Paris in the next few weeks – FCI member Sylvain Le Guen will be participating in an exhibition ‘Un Marchand/Un Artiste’ at Marché Biron between 18th May and 30th June, Allée 2, Stand 205.
The details are available using the following link:
https://www.unmarchandunartiste.com/sylvain-le-guen …
See leader article from a US auction site – click here …
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Details are shown on the poster:
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Part of the collection of fans housed in the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas of Madrid can be seen at the following link : http://ceres.mcu.es/pages/SimpleSearch?Museo=MNAD
Use search term (Busqueda General) Abanicos (fans in Spanish). Select all (Todos los términos), press Buscar to search the catalogue.
The fans were catalogued by the former curator of …
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Margaretha Mazura, FCI member, is having an exhibition of her fans that will take place from 18th August to 7th October 2018 in Laxenburg near Vienna. View poster full-size here
The topic is: Ladies, Harlots, Empresses – Fans as Witnesses of Femininity
The official opening takes place on 23rd August in the evening.
You can …
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From 11th April-13th July the Marmottan library in Boulogne-Billancourt, on the outskirts of Paris will be hosting a fan exhibition curated by Georgina Letourmy-Brodier: “From Joséphine to Eugénie, handfans in France during the XIXth century”.
To discover the historical house of Paul Marmottan, an important first Empire collector, follow the link: http://www.marmottan.fr/page.asp?ref_arbo=2509 …
The de Young Museum in San Francisco will be showing ‘Fans of the Eighteenth Century’ from 31st March 2018 to 28th April 2019. See: https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/fans-eighteenth-century …
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In February 2018, several FCI Northern members will be displaying fans in the Garden Rooms at Tennants Auctioneers in Leyburn, North Yorkshire. The exhibition, in the wonderful new, purpose-built surroundings of Tennants’ Auction Centre will be open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (to 6 p.m. on sale view days) and …
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Fans also feature in the exhibition Visitors to Versailles – at Versailles from 24th October 2017 to 25th February 2018, and thereafter travelling to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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