MAN RAY (1890-1976) Le Baiser, vers 1930-1931 | © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Adagp, Paris 2026

A major collection of groundbreaking 19th- and 20th-century French photography, featuring works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nadar, and Man Ray, will be offered.

France is celebrating 200 years of photography, marking the pioneering work of French inventor Nicéphore Niépce, who captured View from the Window at Le Gras which is widely considered the oldest known photograph made with a camera in 1826–1827.

To celebrate France’s bicentennial of photography , Christie’s will present more than 350 photographs in the Roger Therond Collection: A French Passion .…