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Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Slim AaronsSea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print, 1967 (printed later)

$6,210

Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Original Publication: A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons 60" x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of pa...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Slim AaronsSea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print, 1967 (printed later)

$6,210

Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Original Publication: A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons 60" x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of pa...

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print 1967
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print 1967

Slim AaronsSea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print 1967, 1967 (printed later)

$6,210

Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print 1967

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Original Publication: A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons 60" x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of pa...

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

El Dorado Beach (1959) Limited Estate Stamped

Slim AaronsEl Dorado Beach (1959) Limited Estate Stamped, 1959 (printed later)

$1,800

El Dorado Beach (1959) Limited Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Additional Information: Unframed Paper Size: 12x12'' Printed Later Limited Estate Print Blind Emboss Stamped with Slim Aarons signature and numbered in ink on front to 150 only p...

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1950s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Cricket in Antigua (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
Cricket in Antigua (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped

Slim AaronsCricket in Antigua (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped, 1960 (printed later)

$3,000

Cricket in Antigua (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Additional Information: Unframed Paper Size: 16x16'' Printed Later Limited Estate Stamped with blind embossed Slim Aarons signature and numbered in ink on front to 150 only per ...

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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Olympian Games
Olympian Games

Ray H. FrenchOlympian Games, 1957

$1,750

Olympian Games

By Ray H. French

Located in Fairlawn, OH

In 1966, Ray built upon his mastery of embossing and began developing a shadow box presentation called a graphic construction that combined color, blind embossing, and multi-layered ...

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1950s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

The Reefer
The Reefer

Andrew WyethThe Reefer, 1982

$5,500

The Reefer

By Andrew Wyeth

Located in Missouri, MO

This authorized collotype was produced by Triton Press, New York — long the gold standard for fine art reproduction — under Wyeth's 1982 copyright, and is hand-signed in pencil by th...

Category

1980s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset

Dining In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

Slim AaronsDining In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant, 1957 (printed later)

$5,400

Dining In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Additional Information: Unframed Paper Size: 40x40'' Printed 2024 Limited Estate Stamped numbered in ink to 150 and blind emboss stamped with Slim Aarons signature on front certi...

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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

O’Brian’s Catch Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

Slim AaronsO’Brian’s Catch Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print, 1961 (printed later)

$5,400

O’Brian’s Catch Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Additional Information: Unframed Chromogenic Print Paper Size: 40x40'' / 101 x 101 cm Printed 2024 Limited Estate Stamped Edition Edition size 150 only in total numbered in in...

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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Color, C Print

"An Artist's Model" from "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" series
"An Artist's Model" from "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" series

Julius Price"An Artist's Model" from "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" series, 1896

$375

"An Artist's Model" from "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" series

Located in Hinsdale, IL

In the margin at the bottom right hand corner of each, is a blind embossed stamp from a design of Cheret’s. The smaller format and the fact the “Maitres” were a paid subscription ser...

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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Slim Aarons 'Bahamas Speed Week' 1963 Official Limited Estate Edition
Slim Aarons 'Bahamas Speed Week' 1963 Official Limited Estate Edition

Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Bahamas Speed Week' 1963 Official Limited Estate Edition, 1963

$3,000

Slim Aarons 'Bahamas Speed Week' 1963 Official Limited Estate Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

'Bahamas Speed Week' The Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau, 1963. 20 x 16" inches / 50 x 40 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed i...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mid Century French Academic Figure Study Red Chalk Drawing
Mid Century French Academic Figure Study Red Chalk Drawing

French SchoolMid Century French Academic Figure Study Red Chalk Drawing, 1946

$529Sale Price|20% Off

Mid Century French Academic Figure Study Red Chalk Drawing

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Executed on French academy drawing paper bearing a blind embossed stamp reading Bloc Academie De Clave Dessin, the work strongly suggests an atelier or formal life drawing studio con...

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20th Century French School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Chalk

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Blind Emboss For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the blind emboss you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. You can easily find an example made in the abstract style, while we also have 10 abstract versions to choose from as well. Making the right choice when shopping for a blind emboss may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 19th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right blind emboss for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of gray, black, blue and beige. Creating a blind emboss has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Slim Aarons, Ray H. French, Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), Alexandre Charpentier and George Barris are consistently popular. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in c print, silver gelatin print and lithograph can add an especially memorable touch. A large blind emboss can prove too dominant for some spaces — a smaller blind emboss, measuring 8.27 high and 5.52 wide, may better suit your needs.

How Much is a Blind Emboss?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a blind emboss in our inventory may begin at $185 and can go as high as $24,000, while the average can fetch as much as $3,350.

Slim Aarons for sale on 1stDibs

American photographer Slim Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach, as well as other luxurious settings around the globe.

Committed to eschewing makeup and artificial lighting, Aarons created images that are at once candid and polished, combining the relaxed posture of his subjects, who trusted him to document their lives, with the visual sharpness of a seasoned art director. Having gotten his start taking pictures for the U.S. military magazine Yank during World War II, he contributed over the course of his career to Life, Town and Country and Holiday magazines and published several books.

Aarons was born in Manhattan in 1916. He joined the army at 18, shooting military maneuvers at West Point before serving as a combat photographer, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. After the war, he moved to California and began snapping socialites and movie stars.

In the 1950s, Aarons opened a bureau for Life magazine in Rome, where he took pictures capturing the postwar scene. He was always able to win the trust of his elite subjects, who saw him as close to a peer, rather than a paparazzo.

In a 2002 interview with The Independent, Aarons remarked, ''I knew everyone. They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them.'' This access allowed him to document the rich and famous with their guard down, reading newspapers and magazines, talking on the phone, relaxing by the pool, and chatting with friends. The 1957 photograph The Kings of Hollywood, for example, which won him wide acclaim, shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing together as they celebrate New Year’s Eve.

Many of Aarons’s best-known images involve games and sports. In the 1972 Poolside Backgammon, two young women play the board game of the title against the backdrop of a majestic Acapulco estate. In 1958’s Cannes Watersports, a couple attempts to glide across the Golfe de la Napoule on Jet Skis, one expertly and one hanging on for dear life. And in Penthouse Pool, shot in Athens in 1961, a young woman wearing a yellow bathing cap smiles coyly at the camera, surrounded by friends and brightly colored seat cushions, with the Acropolis faintly visible in the background.

Among Aarons’s books are 1974’s A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life, and its 2003 sequel, Once Upon a Time. His final book, A Place in the Sun, was published in 2005, one year before his death.

Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.

A Close Look at Modern Art

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

Find a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right Color-photography for You

Color photography evokes emotion that can bring a viewer into the scene. It can transport one to faraway places or back into the past.

The first color photograph, taken in 1861, was more of an exercise in science than art. Photographer Thomas Sutton and physicist James Clerk Maxwell used three separate exposures of a tartan ribbon — filtered through red, green and blue — and composited them into a single image, resulting in the first multicolor representation of an object.

Before this innovation, photographs were often tinted by hand. By the 1890s, color photography processes were introduced based on that 1860s experiment. In the early 20th century, autochromes brought color photography to a commercial audience.

Now color photography is widely available, with these historic photographs documenting moments and scenes that are still vivid generations later. Photographers in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered new perspectives in the evolving field of modern color photography with gripping portraiture, snow-capped landscapes, stunning architecture and lots more.

In the voluminous collection of photography on 1stDibs, find vibrant full-color images by Slim Aarons, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Stefanie Schneider, Steve McCurry and other artists. Bring visual interest to any corner of your home with color photography — introduce a salon-style gallery hang or another arrangement that best fits your space.

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