Hand-fans in fun colors just in time for late spring and early summer. From Fan d’Eventail, Paris.

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A small brisé fan in bakelite evoking the Futurism movement by its composition and its colors. ca. 1920-1930. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3530-futurism-fan-circa-1920-30.html

Fan with a wallpaper leaf in the taste of the Symbolists. 20th c. Framed and under glass. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/fan-leafs/3535-symbolist-hill-fan-leaf-xxth-century.html
Circus fan with a paper leaf painted with a clown and a little monkey. Wooden sticks and guards, the throat partially painted, the master guard applied with a blue tinted mother-of-pearl. 20th c. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3520-the-colors-of-the-circus-20th-century-fan.html
Small hand-fan, the leaf in fuchsia pink fabric painted with an elegant couple ready to dance, their heads in painted Bakelite with Galalith sticks and guards in imitation of tortoiseshell. Monogrammed on the bottom left. ca. 1920s-1930s. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/art-nouveau-fans/3529-the-marquis-at-the-party-art-deco-fan.html

Small “Sultane” hand-fan, the blue silk leaf applied with a white lace border. “Sultane” sticks and guards made of engraved and grilled bone. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventail, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3534-sultane-blue-fan-circa-1870-1900.html

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