Advertising fan

M.D. French

ca. 1925

Not on view

This fan promotes the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Dufrêne was its design director and the head of La Maîtrise, its interior decoration division, from 1921 to 1952.

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Provenance

Title: Advertising fan
Artist: M.D. (French) (probably Maurice Dufrêne, French, 1876-1955)
Date: ca. 1925
Medium: Paper, wood, metal
Dimensions: 10 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (26 × 26 cm, 18.144g)
Classification: Fans
Credit Line: Gift of Primavera Gallery, 1982
Object Number: 1982.78.1
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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