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Realist Color Photography

REALIST STYLE

Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world. 

Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history. 

By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.

Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.

Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.

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Style: Realist
Kaufmann Desert House Estate Edition Photograph (Poolside Series)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1970: A desert house in Palm Springs designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar Kaufman. Lita Baron approaches Nelda Linsk, right, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk who is talking to a frien...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Kaufmann Desert House Estate Edition Photograph (Poolside Series)
Kaufmann Desert House Estate Edition Photograph (Poolside Series)

Slim Aarons
Kaufmann Desert House Estate Edition Photograph (Poolside Series), 1970

$3,900
Ride By Rows: photo of Black African American urban cowboy in Philadelphia city
By Ron Tarver
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This photograph of a Black African American cowboy in the urban city of Philadelphia pictured against the city's iconic row homes is part of artist Ron Tarver's long-term, ongoing project, "The Long Ride Home: The Black Cowboy...
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2010s Realist Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Ride By Rows: photo of Black African American urban cowboy in Philadelphia city
Ride By Rows: photo of Black African American urban cowboy in Philadelphia city

Ron Tarver
Ride By Rows: photo of Black African American urban cowboy in Philadelphia city, 2024

$2,500
North Conway, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

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North Conway, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
North Conway, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
North Conway, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955, printed later

$2,400
Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain. This is an estate...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1967-printed later

$2,400
Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain. This is an estate...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1967-printed later

$3,600
Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1954 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American actors Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland attending a house party in Beverly Hills. This i...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

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Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1954-printed later

$2,400
Social Call, Estate Edition Photograph, Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1972—Charley Weaver makes a poolside phone call under a white fringe umbrella on a cream rotary phone at Las Brisas in Acapulco, Mexico. She wears a yello...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Social Call, Estate Edition Photograph, Acapulco
Social Call, Estate Edition Photograph, Acapulco

Slim Aarons
Social Call, Estate Edition Photograph, Acapulco, 1972

$3,000
Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City. This i...
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1940s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1947, Printed Later

$2,400
Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City. This i...
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1940s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1947, Printed Later

$1,800
Skiing In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman waiting to go on a ski run in Stowe, Vermont, USA. This is an estate stamp...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Skiing In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Skiing In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1962, printed later

$3,000
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1957, printed later

$1,800
Slim Aarons Lake Tahoe Couple (Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Poolside)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A couple relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. Relaxing at Lake Tahoe Slim Aarons Estate Edition 48x48 inches Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Additional sizes offered: 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 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. Photograph is unframed 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). * Internal tags: Lake Tahoe; Slim Aarons; architecture poolside, mountain, pool and sky; mid-century modern; vintage glamour, vintage tahoe...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

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Slim Aarons Lake Tahoe Couple (Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Poolside)
Slim Aarons Lake Tahoe Couple (Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Poolside)

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Lake Tahoe Couple (Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Poolside), 1959

$5,400
Untitled #3617 from "Leaves" series: nature still-life leaf photograph w/ orange
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment photograph by artist Paul Cava depicting a highly detailed autumn leaf in a minimalist arrangement on a textured background. It is printed on Hahnemuhle P...
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2010s Realist Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled #3617 from "Leaves" series: nature still-life leaf photograph w/ orange
Untitled #3617 from "Leaves" series: nature still-life leaf photograph w/ orange

Paul Cava
Untitled #3617 from "Leaves" series: nature still-life leaf photograph w/ orange, 2023

$1,200
Champagne by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo (in white crochet, left) talking to a guest by the pool at Ne...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Champagne by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Champagne by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Champagne by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$1,800
Pool at Las Hadas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests round the pool at Las Hadas, Manzanillo, Mexico, 1974. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collec...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Pool at Las Hadas, Estate Edition
Pool at Las Hadas, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Pool at Las Hadas, Estate Edition, 1974

$5,400
Poolside Scenery, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Poolside Scenery, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Poolside Scenery, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Poolside Scenery, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$1,800
Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$2,400
SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s maritime photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the British ocean liner 'SS Queen of Bermuda' in Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda. This is an es...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph
SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph

Slim Aarons
SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph, 1957, printed later

$2,400
Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$1,800
Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$1,800
Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a newly available vintage scene of the swimming pool of the Marbella Club, in Andalu...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)
Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)

Slim Aarons
Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain), 1982, Printed later

$4,200
Pop and Society: Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull at vintage Leixlip Castle
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic and unusual photograph of 60's rock and roll legends, captured in a moment of casual glamour. 1968: From left to right, Singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed portrait of a woman in 18th century silk dress at Leixlip Castle, Ireland, the home of Desmond Guinness. The sofa is a deep burgundy red, and the background features a richly patterned and gilded wallpaper...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Pop and Society: Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull at vintage Leixlip Castle
Pop and Society: Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull at vintage Leixlip Castle

Slim Aarons
Pop and Society: Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull at vintage Leixlip Castle, 1968

$5,400
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a helicopter arriving at a mo...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1961

$2,400
Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain. This is an estate...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1967-printed later

$4,200
Palace Hotel, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people ice skating at the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1989. This is an...
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1980s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Palace Hotel, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Palace Hotel, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Palace Hotel, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph, 1989, printed later

$3,600
Poolside Waiting, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a waiter by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Poolside Waiting, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Poolside Waiting, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Poolside Waiting, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$2,400
Paradise Island, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Versailles Gardens and the French Cloister at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island, opposite Nassau on the Bahamas, May 1968. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity in...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Paradise Island, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Paradise Island, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Paradise Island, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1968

$3,000
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Cortina D...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph, 1962

$2,400
Nelda and Friends, Palm Springs, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ladies by the pool at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. From right to left, former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), unknown, Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Lita Baron (in white sunhat). The Linsks are the current owners of the house. 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, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism. Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday." Slim Aarons Nelda and...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Nelda and Friends, Palm Springs, Estate Edition
Nelda and Friends, Palm Springs, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Nelda and Friends, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, 1970

$4,200
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poodle entering a barber shop on a street in Deauville, Normandy, France. This is an estate sta...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph, 1970, printed later

$1,800
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poodle entering a barber shop on a street in Deauville, Normandy, France. This is an estate sta...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph, 1970, printed later

$3,600
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple walking on Caleta Beach holding hands, Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. This is an esta...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1968-printed later

$3,000
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple walking on Caleta Beach holding hands, Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. This is an esta...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1968-printed later

$3,600
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple walking on Caleta Beach holding hands, Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. This is an esta...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1968-printed later

$3,900
Villa del Balbianello, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Lake Como, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Immerse yourself in the tranquil luxury of Lake Como with this exquisite Slim Aarons photograph featuring Italian mountain climber and explorer Guido Monzino (1928-1988), captured at his Villa del Balbianello...
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1980s Realist Color Photography

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Villa del Balbianello, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Lake Como, Italy
Villa del Balbianello, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Lake Como, Italy

Slim Aarons
Villa del Balbianello, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Lake Como, Italy, 1983

$4,200
Rhode Island Surfer, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A surfer carrying his board at a Rhode Island beach, September 1965. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered an...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Rhode Island Surfer, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Rhode Island Surfer, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1965

$3,000
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1955: Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodle. Slim Aarons Pink Accessory, Estate Edition Chromogenic Lambda print 1955, Printed Later...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

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Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1955

$1,800
Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1990s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Belgian born actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) socialising at a party in San Francisco. This is an estate stamp...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

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Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1993, printed later

$1,800
San Vicenzo, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1984, Donna Stefanella Vanni Calvello di San Vicenzo in the Hall of Mirrors at her family's palazzo in Palermo, Sicily. The focal point of Sicilian Belle-Epoque society, this eightee...
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1980s Realist Color Photography

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San Vicenzo, Estate Edition
San Vicenzo, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
San Vicenzo, Estate Edition, 1984

$3,900
Hotel on Lake Como, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The swimming pool and jetty at the Villa d'Este Hotel, Lake Como, Italy, June 1983 Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim ...
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1980s Realist Color Photography

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Hotel on Lake Como, Estate Edition
Hotel on Lake Como, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Hotel on Lake Como, Estate Edition, 1983

$5,400
Crowded Kitzbühel, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers making their way between the slopes in Kitzbühel, Austria. This is an estate stamped and...
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1980s Realist Color Photography

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Crowded Kitzbühel, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Crowded Kitzbühel, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Crowded Kitzbühel, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1980-printed later

$2,400
Slim Aarons Spinnaker Sailing (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spinnaker sailing on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, August 1973 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldw...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Slim Aarons Spinnaker Sailing (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons Spinnaker Sailing (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Spinnaker Sailing (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1973

$4,200
Montecatini, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
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1980s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Montecatini, Estate Edition
Montecatini, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Montecatini, Estate Edition, 1980

$3,900
Poet's Paradise: T.S. Eliot, Estate Edition on Love Beach, Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Anglo-American poet and playwright, TS Eliot (1888 - 1965) at Love Beach, New Providence Island while on his honeymoon in the Bahamas, 1957. Complimentary dealer shipping to your fr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Color Photography

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C Print

Poet's Paradise: T.S. Eliot, Estate Edition on Love Beach, Bahamas
Poet's Paradise: T.S. Eliot, Estate Edition on Love Beach, Bahamas

Slim Aarons
Poet's Paradise: T.S. Eliot, Estate Edition on Love Beach, Bahamas, 1957, printed later

$2,400
Eden Rock, Estate Edition, Bay of St. Jean in the Caribbean island of St. Barts
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The mansion of Remy de Haenen on a peninsula in the bay of St. Jean at Eden Rock on the Caribbean island of St Barts (Saint-Barthelemy), March 1973. The house is now a hotel Slim Aa...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Eden Rock, Estate Edition, Bay of St. Jean in the Caribbean island of St. Barts
Eden Rock, Estate Edition, Bay of St. Jean in the Caribbean island of St. Barts

Slim Aarons
Eden Rock, Estate Edition, Bay of St. Jean in the Caribbean island of St. Barts, 1973

$1,800
Sunbathing in Capri (Estate Edition, #1)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sunbathers by a swimming pool at the Hotel Punta Tragara on the island of Capri, Italy, August 1974. Edition #1 available. Slim Aarons Sunbathing in Capri...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Sunbathing in Capri (Estate Edition, #1)
Sunbathing in Capri (Estate Edition, #1)

Slim Aarons
Sunbathing in Capri (Estate Edition, #1), 1974

$4,200
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1957, printed later

$2,400
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and other guests at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. Slim Aarons Estate E...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, Estate Edition
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, Estate Edition, 1970

$3,000
Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A party at Romanoff's in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1959. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Modern es...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1959

$1,800
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
Category

1950s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1957, printed later

$3,000
Capri Holiday, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swimmers off the Italian island of Capri, 1958. 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, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism. Slim Aarons Capri Holiday...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Capri Holiday, Estate Edition
Capri Holiday, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Capri Holiday, Estate Edition, 1958

$3,900
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and Kim Wadsworth at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California. This is an estate ...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1956, printed later

$3,000
Skiing in Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing in Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph This 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two women in kni...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing in Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
Skiing in Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing in Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph, 1962, printed later

$4,200
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and Kim Wadsworth at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California. This is an estate ...
Category

1950s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1956, printed later

$2,400
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giacomo and Stefania Mantegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983. Brilliant green trees contrast with the vivid orange, reds and turquoise of the architecture. Four boats can are afloat on the deep blue of the lake. Slim Aarons Giacomo Montegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como Slim Aarons Estate Edition Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate. Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency Printed Later Certificate of Authenticity included Collector will get the next number in the edition 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. Photograph is unframed 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 * Now in his 70s, Giacomo Mantegazza...
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1980s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Estate Edition
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Estate Edition, 1983

$3,600
Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a newly available vintage scene of the swimming pool of the Marbella Club, in Andalu...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)
Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)

Slim Aarons
Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain), 1982, Printed later

$5,400
Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Model Barbara...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph, 1963

$2,400
Pussyfooting (Dee Hartford), Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film producer Howard Hawks, sips a Pussyfoot - a mixture of Jamaican fruit juices, 1958. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certifica...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Pussyfooting (Dee Hartford), Estate Edition
Pussyfooting (Dee Hartford), Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Pussyfooting (Dee Hartford), Estate Edition, 1958, printed later

$3,900
Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A party at Romanoff's in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1959. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Modern es...
Category

1950s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1959

$2,400
Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1990s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Belgian born actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) socialising at a party in San Francisco. This is an estate stamp...
Category

1960s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1993, printed later

$4,200

Realist color photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Realist color photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add color photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, pink, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Massimo Listri, Sean Scully, and John Conn. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Lambda Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Realist color photography, so small editions measuring 8.5 inches across are also available. Prices for color photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $200 and tops out at $28,500, while the average work sells for $3,350.

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