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Period: 1950s
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Having A Topping Time 1959 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Having A Topping Time - Oversize
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach. A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Chromogenic print
paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm
unframed
printed later
edition size 150 only
certificate of authenticity supplied
numbered in ink & blind embossed stamped Slim Aarons signature on front
Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency.
palm palms dog dogs...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Nicholsons
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Nicholsons
Cafe Nicholson in New York, 1959 (Photo by Slim Aarons).
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collec...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool At Lake Tahoe - Oversize C print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool At Lake Tahoe - Oversize
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150).
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959....
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Dining In The Bahamas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dining In The Bahamas' by Slim Aarons
A waiter carrying a tray of food walks past a woman walking away from a swimming pool which is surrounded by tables, each with a parasol to sh...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955 (Photo by Slim Aarons)
This photogr...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Campbell Falls
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A family enjoying a picnic at Campbell Falls, Massachusetts, 1959
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lake Tahoe Ladies
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption:A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and fa...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons - Bermudian Hostess - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Bermudan Hostess - Estate Stamped
Polly Trott Hornburg in front of her father’s typical Bermudian house. She is wearing her own design of Thaibok slacks and shirt for...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons - Lord Of All I Survey - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Lord Of All I Survey - Estate Stamped
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150). The youngest peer in England, seven year old Thomas Alexander...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955 (Photo by Slim Aarons)
This photogr...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons - Lake Tahoe Canoes - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Lake Tahoe Canoes - Estate Stamped
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150).
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
This ph...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Pool at Lake Tahoe, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph Sierra Nevada Mountains
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This landscape photograph by iconic mid-century photographer Slim Aarons depicts bathers by a pool at the Tahoe Tavern on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1959.
Immerse yourself in the nostalgic allure of Slim Aarons' 'Lake Tahoe Pool,' a stunning estate photograph...
Category
American Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Campbell Falls
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A family enjoying a picnic at Campbell Falls, Massachusetts, 1959
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Fishing Boats - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Fishing Boats - Estate Stamped
Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico, 1952.
Gorgeous print measuring a large 40x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm's.
Estate Stam...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Nice pool - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' Palm Beach
American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 - 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on t...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Nicholsons - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Nicholsons - Estate Stamped
Cafe Nicholson in New York, 1959.
Gorgeous print measuring a large 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm's.
Estat...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'The Carlton Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Printed Later.
Slim Aaro...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons - Relaxing at Lake Tahoe - Estate stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Relaxing At Lake Tahoe by Slim Aarons
A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Step into the big Blue with this sumptuou...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Newport Casino'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
General view of the croquet court at Newport Casino, Rhode Island, USA, August 1987.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marsha Gayle ' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Marsha Gayle' by Slim Aarons
Marsha Gayle (right) and a friend relax on a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957.
Gorgeous prin...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Beverly Hills Hotel 1957 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Beverly Hills Hotel' 1957 Limited Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Beautiful 1950's cars parked outside the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Typica...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Hepburn And Friends 1953 Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
On the left film star Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) talks with Mrs Grover Magnin (centre) and another guest at a party in San Francisco, 1953.
The beautiful and fashionable movie star and style icon dressed in her eponymous look; all in black with elegant white gloves joins Mrs Grover Magnin who wears an all white long gown...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Sunbathing In Burgenstock, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne in Canton Nidwald...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Holiday In Capri, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carla Vuccino and Bianca Volpato holiday with their friends on Capri, Italy, July 1958.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Susanna Boylston Bolton'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Susanna Boylston Bolton
1965 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Susanna ‘Sukey’ Boylston Bolton, Newport...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Newport Party'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Newport Party
1965 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Mrs. Michael McDonough (née Pandy Strawbridge) dan...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Sunbathing In Burgenstock, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne in Canton Nidwald...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Esther Williams, Poolside, Estate Edition, 1950s Florida
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Internal: Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, midcentury modern, Vintage Esther Williams, Vintage Poolside Series, Vintage Movie Stars, Vintage Swimmers, Celebrity Swimmers, Vintage Glamour, Midcentury Photography...
Category
American Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Beverly Hills Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate...
Category
American Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Nancy Talbert at Newport Casino'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Newport Tennis Week
1953 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: A view from the umbrella boxes towards the t...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Cee Zee Guest
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cee Zee Guest
Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 - 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) reclines on a garden chair in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm ...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Nancy Talbert And Lefty Flynn'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Talbert And Lefty Flynn
1953 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Nancy Talbert, with former America...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Yachting in Newport'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Yachting in Newport
1965 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: J. Gordon Douglas, Jr. (left) and American s...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Andros Island Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Andros Island
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoys a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas, 1957.
unframed
c type prin...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marina Piccola Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola
1954
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954.
unframed
c type print
printed 2023
24 x 20" - ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pink Accessory Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pink Accessory
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodl...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
La Coquille Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Coquille
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
An aerial view of Palm Beach, Florida, 1955, showing La Coquille Hotel and its swimming pool
unframed
c type pr...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Joan Collins Relaxes Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Joan Collins Relaxes
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
unframed
c type print
printed 202...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
In Capri Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
In Capri
1958
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Robert Hornstein, the artist Novella Parigini and Prince Dado Ruspoli on Capri, circa 1958.
unframed
c type print
...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hepburn And Friends Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hepburn And Friends
1953
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1953 On the left film star Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) talks with Mrs Grover Magnin (centre) and another...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Henley Regatta Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Henley Regatta
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Free mooring at the Angel Hotel at Henley-on-Thames on the River Thames, during the Henley Regatta, 1955.
un...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fontainebleau Car Park Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fontainebleau Car Park
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
The car park at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami, circa 1955
unframed
c type p...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eva Gabor Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eva Gabor
1950
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
TV and film actress Eva Gabor takes a coffee in an unfinished bedroom in Bay Roc Hotel, Montego, Jamaica, 1950.
...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Esther Williams Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Esther Williams
1956
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 – 2013) lounging on a trampoline, circa 1956.
unframed
...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
We Know Our Place Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
We Know Our Place
1958
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A Dalmatian dog lies at the feet of Mr and Mrs John M Seabrook as they pose with a pony and trap in the ga...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Poolside In Kenya Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside In Kenya
1958
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A woman sits at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958.
unframed
c type print
printed 2023
2...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Andros Island Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Andros Island
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A family enjoying a quiet beach on Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957.
unframed
c type print
printed 2023
20 x 20" ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Nice Spot For Lunch Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A Nice Spot For Lunch
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A group enjoy a picnic at a rocky coastline in Bermuda, 1957.
u...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Christmas Traffic Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Christmas Traffic
1953
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Christmas trees and red and white automobile light trails on Park Avenue, New York, at Christmas time, Dec...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Campbell Falls Picnic Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Campbell Falls Picnic
1959
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A family enjoying a picnic on the bank of the Whiting River near Campbell Falls, Massachusetts, USA, 1...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunbathing In Burgenstock Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Burgenstock
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Lilian Hanson, sunbathing by a pool at the Burgenstock Re...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall
1958
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, wife of senator Leverett Saltonstall in Palm Beach, USA, circa ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bermuda Style Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Style
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A swimming pool in the grounds of a house in Bermuda, 1957.
unframed
c type pri...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beach Backgammon Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beach Backgammon
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Backgammon on the beach at the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido, Italy, 1957.
unframed
c type print
...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
French Stately Home Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
French Stately Home
1956
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, with his wife the Comtesse and their children at the...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eton-Harrow Match Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eton-Harrow Match
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Lord’s achieves its sartorial and social pinnacle for a school event – the annual Eton-Harrow Match.
unfr...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Esther Williams In Florida Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Esther Williams In Florida
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
American swimmer and actress Esther Williams by the pool with friends in Florida, 1955.
unframed...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Esther Williams Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Esther Williams
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a Florida swimming pool....
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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