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Freeport Yachts 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Freeport Yachts 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Freeport Yachts 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Freeport Yachts 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Yachts in a marina in Freeport, in the Bahamas, April 1969. 40 x 30" inches / 102 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

John Rawlings 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
John Rawlings 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

John Rawlings 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

John Rawlings 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 – 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Est...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Brunch At Brennans 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Brunch At Brennans 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Brunch At Brennans 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

A Wonderful Time 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Pebble Beach 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Pebble Beach 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Pebble Beach 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Pebble Beach 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Riders from the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center wend their way through the Californian sand dunes and pampas grass, November 1976. 16 ...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Yachting Trip 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Yachting Trip 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Yachting Trip 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Yachting Trip 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967. 16 x 20" inches / 41...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Cannes Watersports 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Cannes Watersports 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Cannes Watersports 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Cannes Watersports 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Tania Mallet - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Tania Mallet - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Tania Mallet - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film ‘Goldfinger’. 48 x 48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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The Fullers - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
The Fullers - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

The Fullers - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190S...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Slim Aarons Estate Print - CZ's House
Slim Aarons Estate Print - CZ's House

Slim Aarons Estate Print - CZ's House

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Paper size 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) ...

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1950s Modern Landscape Photography

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Slim Aarons Estate Print - CZ's House
Slim Aarons Estate Print - CZ's House

Slim Aarons Estate Print - CZ's House

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...

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1950s Modern Landscape Photography

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Family Pool 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Family Pool 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Family Pool 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Family Pool 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs A Watson Armour III (Jean Schweppe) with friends and family enjoying the pool on their estate at Lake Forest, Illinois. 48 x 48" i...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Charter Ketch 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Charter Ketch 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Charter Ketch 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Charter Ketch 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Sixty eight foot charter ketch ‘Traveller II’ at anchor in the lee of Stocking Island, across the harbour from George Town, Exuma 40...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Curling 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Curling 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Curling 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Curling 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Heinrich Dite and Leonie Heller play a variety of curling in Lech, Austria. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Britt Ekland 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Britt Ekland 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Britt Ekland 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Britt Ekland 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Film star Britt Ekland (Britt-Marie Eklund) in Porto Ercole, Italy. 1969. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Fishing Boats 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Fishing Boats 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Fishing Boats 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Fishing Boats 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico, 1952. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Princess Ruspoli 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Princess Ruspoli 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Princess Ruspoli 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Princess Ruspoli 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Princess Lucy Ruspoli stands in front of a colourful wall of old skis in Lech am Arlberg, Austria, February 1979 16 x 12" inches ...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Guests At Villa Nirvana 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Guests At Villa Nirvana 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Guests At Villa Nirvana 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Guests At Villa Nirvana 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1978. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm ...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collecti...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Checkered Flag 1963- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Checkered Flag 1963- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Checkered Flag 1963- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Checkered Flag 1963- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate S...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Klosters 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Klosters 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Klosters 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Klosters 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, 1963. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Chalet Costi 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Chalet Costi 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Chalet Costi 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Chalet Costi 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968. 48 x 48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Leonard Dalsemer 1974 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Leonard Dalsemer 1974 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Leonard Dalsemer 1974 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Leonard Dalsemer 1974 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm pap...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Verbier View - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Verbier View - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Verbier View - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Verbier View - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

The village was opened in 1967. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints on...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Snowmass Gathering 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Snowmass Gathering 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Snowmass Gathering 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Poolside Gathering 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Two women, wearing brightly-coloured skiwear, stand in the foreground of a group of people attending a party in Snowmass Village...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Poolside Backgammon 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Poolside Backgammon 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Poolside Backgammon 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Poolside Backgammon 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm pa...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A boucherie or butcher’s shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971. 40 x 60" inches /...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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"Salon des Cent" from "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" series
"Salon des Cent" from "Les Maitres de L'Affiche" series

"Salon des Cent" 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

Relaxing At Lake Tahoe 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Relaxing At Lake Tahoe 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Relaxing At Lake Tahoe 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Relaxing At Lake Tahoe 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate ...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Poolside In Sotogrande - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Poolside In Sotogrande - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Poolside In Sotogrande - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Poolside In Sotogrande - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande, Spain, August 1975. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Garden Party - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Garden Party - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Garden Party - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Garden Party - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped An elegant garden party in Miami, Florida. 10 x 10" inches / 25 x 25 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Catherine Wilke - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Catherine Wilke - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Catherine Wilke - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

(Photo by Slim Aarons) 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regard...

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1980s Modern Color Photography

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Slim Aarons Estate Print - My Toy
Slim Aarons Estate Print - My Toy

Slim Aarons Estate Print - My Toy

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...

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1980s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Verbier Vacation 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Verbier Vacation 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Verbier Vacation 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Verbier Vacation 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964 48 x 72" inches / 122 x 183 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Verbier Skiers 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Verbier Skiers 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Verbier Skiers 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Verbier Skiers 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Fashionable Skiers at Verbier, 1964. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Speedboat Landing - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Speedboat Landing - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Speedboat Landing - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Speedboat Landing - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped August 1973:A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Er...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Peggy Guggenheim 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Peggy Guggenheim 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Peggy Guggenheim 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

The palace houses her private art collection, including Picasso’s ‘On the Beach’, pictured to the left. 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Scone Madam - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Scone Madam - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Scone Madam - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Poolside In Sotogrande 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Afternoon tea round the pool on a cool day at the home of interior decorator James Pendleton in Beverly Hills. 40 x 60" in...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc - Slim Aarons
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc - Slim Aarons

Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc - Slim Aarons

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 - Slim Aarons Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...

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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.

Questions About Slim Aarons

  • 1stDibs ExpertNovember 20, 2024
    Slim Aarons's real name was George Allen Aarons, and his nickname came from the fact that he was tall and slender. An American photographer, Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty and Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach. 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. Find a selection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.