Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Mickey Pallas, Chicago

Christie's East, 8 November 1982, Sale 5215, Lot 143

Private collection, Switzerland

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2005

Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Diary of a Century (New York, 1970), unpaginated

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, J. H. Lartigue: les autos et autres engins roulants (Paris, 1974), p. 50

Jacques-Henri Lartigue (Aperture, 1976), p. 63

Jacques Damade, Jacques-Henri Lartigue (New York, 1986), cover

Vicki Goldberg, Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Photographer (Boston, 1998), pl. 77

Lartigue: Album of a Century (New York, 2003), unpaginated

Autophoto (Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 2017), p. 312

While this photograph is commonly dated 1912, in large part because Lartigue himself dated it '26 juin 1912' in his records, it was most likely taken in 1913. The vehicle pictured speeding by is a Théophile Schneider race car that competed in the Automobile-Club de France Grand Prix in 1913, not in 1912. 

In 1951, the Museum of Modern Art established its Art Lending Service as a forum to educate young collectors about modern art. It allowed the public to rent a piece of art, each selected by a trustee advisory committee in consultation with MoMA's curators, for a two-month period before deciding to purchase the work or return it. 

The ALS label on the reverse of this Lartigue most likely dates from the 1960s.