''Woman with a Fan'' is a 1909 oil on canvas painting by

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

. It has been held in the

Pushkin Museum The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (, abbreviated as , ''GMII'') is the largest museum of European art in Moscow. It is located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The International musical festival Sviatos ...

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

since 1948. It was owned by collector

Sergei Shchukin Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin (; 10 January 1936) was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Early life and family Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin was born on in Moscow, one of ten c ...

until being seized by the Russian state after the October Revolution in 1917 and assigned to the

State Museum of Modern Western Art The State Museum of Modern Western Art ( ''GMNZI'') was a museum in Moscow. It was based on the collection of paintings assembled by Sergei Schukin and Ivan Morozov (businessman), Ivan Morozov, and nationalized by the Soviet Russia in 1918. Ser ...

. In this painting it can be noticed the influence that African art had on Picasso's works at this time, for example in the dark and sculpted features of the face and in the oval shape of the eyes.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Woman with a Fan Paintings by Pablo Picasso 1909 paintings Paintings in the Pushkin Museum Portraits of women

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