Slim Aarons Art
American, 1916-2006
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.
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Period: 1970s
Period: 1950s
Period: 1990s
Artist: Slim Aarons
Item Ships From: New York
Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race, 1955
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square to Greek Street, in London's Soho, 1955
Estate stamped and...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Poolside Pairs, Kaufmann House
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Kaufmann Desert House, Poolside Pairs
1970
C Print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House i...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
40 x 40 inches
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30 x 30 inches
$3350
24 x 24 inches
$3000
...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons 'Karen Davis in St. Moritz'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Karen Davis
1978 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
American opera singer Karen Davis arrives at the Palace Hotel in an antique sleigh...
Category
1990s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Kaufmann Desert House (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J. Kaufmann, and now owned by Nelda Linsk.
Estate stamp...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Carlton Hotel' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
Slim Aarons
Carlton Hotel
Giclee print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
60 x 60 inches
$5100
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 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.
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 *
Slim Aarons photographed the Carlton Hotel, in Cannes, in 1958. The hotel was built in 1911, located at 58 La Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. It was designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère and built for Henry Ruhl, a Swiss hotelier. It is famous for hosting movie stars from around the world during the annual Film Festival. Famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning movie star Grace Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956.
In the summer of 1983 the hotel and its private beach featured prominently in the music video for the Elton John song I'm Still Standing. (The video also appears in the 2019 film Rocketman.) During the shooting of the video the Carlton was the scene of a drunken party involving John and the band Duran Duran that has since become something of a legend at the hotel. Significant damages to the rooms in John's suite resulted.[2] Both exterior and interior shots appear in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, "World (The Price of Love)", and exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps´ 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart".
The Carlton Cannes has been the target of several high-profile jewelry...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Courchevel
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Courchevel
1970
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A ski resort in Courchevel in the French Alps, circa 1970.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certi...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Caribe Hilton Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caribe Hilton Beach
1956 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A woman reclining in a hammock hung between palm trees on the be...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
20 x 16 inches
$2150
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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.
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). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, 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.
Internal: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco), Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
20 x 16 inches
$2150
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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.
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). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, 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.
Internal: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venice Gondolas
1957 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
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: Drena Van Alen aboard Walter Gubelmann's yac...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Beach at St Tropez' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sunbathers on the beach at St. Tropez, France, 1977.
Slim Aarons
Beach at St Tropez
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Chromogenic Lambd...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Gloria Schiff
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gloria Schiff, the twin sister of Consuelo Crespi, with her pet dog and pet birds at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
24 x 24 inches
$3000
Com...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
We Know Our Place
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Dalmatian dog lies at the feet of Mr and Mrs John M Seabrook as they pose with a pony and trap in the garden of their home, the Seabrook estate, New Jersey.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.
El Venero
1971
C print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered editio...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Winter Wear, Cortina d'Ampezzo (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption:Manuela Bormanero and a friend holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, March 1976.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authe...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Gloria Schiff
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gloria Schiff, the twin sister of Consuelo Crespi, with her pet dog and pet birds at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
24 x 24 inches
$3000
Com...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Lily On The Riviera (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lily On The Riviera
1957 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
French soprano Lily P...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Skiing In New Hampshire'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
New England Skiing
1955 (printed later)
C-print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Re...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Gloria Schiff
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gloria Schiff, the twin sister of Consuelo Crespi, with her pet dog and pet birds at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
24 x 24 inches
$3000
Com...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Gloria Schiff
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gloria Schiff, the twin sister of Consuelo Crespi, with her pet dog and pet birds at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
24 x 24 inches
$3000
Com...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Top People's Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in t...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Top People's Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in t...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
La Barranca
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bandleader Teddy Stauffer (1909 - 1991) at La Barranca, Warren Avis' villa in Acapulco, January 1971.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Acapulco Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Architect Arturo Pani and his wife by their swimming pool at home in Acapulco, Mexico.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is proud to o...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
La Barranca
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bandleader Teddy Stauffer (1909 - 1991) at La Barranca, Warren Avis' villa in Acapulco, January 1971.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Commander Whitehead
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Commander Edward Whitehead (1908 - 1978), the public face of Schweppes, leans on a silver Rolls Royce at Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. Commander Whitehead served in ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Commander Whitehead
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Commander Edward Whitehead (1908 - 1978), the public face of Schweppes, leans on a silver Rolls Royce at Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. Commander Whitehead served in ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Portofino Villa, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Klaus Pudel's villa, the Casa Montefino, overlooking Portofino harbour, Portofino, Italy, August 1977.
Portofino Villa
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic L...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Cecily Godfrey in Hong Kong'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Cecily Godfrey, Hong Kong
1979 (printed later)
Lambda C-print
Estate Edition of 150
Cecily Godfrey relaxes by the pool at her home in Hong Kong, 1979. Her husband Gerald...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Palm Springs Life'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Palm Springs Life
1970 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'New England Skiing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A skier carrying his boots in Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, 1955.
Slim Aarons
New England Skiing
1955 (printed later)
C-print
Estate stamped and hand number...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Skiing at Sugarbush'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Skiing at Sugarbush
1960 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, View From Il Pellicano (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
View From Il Pellicano, 1991
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted w...
Category
1990s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Il Canille'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Il Canille
1978 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Eden-Roc Pool' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Eden-Roc Pool
1976
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
CAPTION: Guests by the pool at the ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Tennis in the Bahamas ( Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tennis in the Bahamas, 1957
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Two women stand talking t...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Saint Tropez Seafront' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Saint-Tropez Seafront, 1970
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The seafront in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, Se...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Henry Fonda
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Henry Fonda (1905 - 1982) on a rubber dinghy during the filming of Mister Roberts, in which he starred, 1955
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 1...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Adriatic Sailors, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons, 'Adriatic Sailors'
1956
Young holidaymakers from Milan enjoy a sail on the Adriatic, 1956.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenti...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Tennis in the Bahamas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Tennis in the Bahamas, 1958
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
1957—Two women stand talking to...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
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 ...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Capri Bay'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Faraglioni Rocks on the Italian island of Capri, 1958.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons 'Fan Mail (Marilyn Monroe)'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film 'The Asphalt Jungle' had been released.
Estate stamped a...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boul...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Carlton Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958, Printed Later
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Laguna Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970.
Laguna Beach
Slim Aarons Estate Print
Chromogenic Lambda print with two certificates of authenticity
60 x 40 ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Kaufmann Desert House' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J. Kaufmann and now owned by Nelda Linsk (right, in yell...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, 'Lake Tahoe Trip, ' Zephyr Cove (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Young women canoeing at Zephyr Cove on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, USA, 1959
Lake Tahoe Trip
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Printed Later
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). *
Vintage Canoeing...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Let's Twirl
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Lets Twirl, 1954
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Film stars Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwarz) and his wife Janet Leigh ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Palm Beach Idyll , Estate Edition, Christmas Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This classic Slim Aarons photograph depicts a couple basking under the sun at the renowned Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. The woman in the forefront sports a vintage orange swimsui...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'New England Skiing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
New England Skiing
1955 (printed later)
C-print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A skier carrying his boots in Cran...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'New England Skiing' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
New England Skiing
1955 (printed later)
C-print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Two women recline on improvised su...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Dining in the Bahamas (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Dining in the Bahamas, 1957
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
A waiter carrying a tray of food walks past a woman walk...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Il Canille' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo overlooking the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980. I...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Snorkeling Holiday (Turks and Caicos) Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Snorkeling Holiday (Turks and Caicos), 1975
Chromogenic lambda print
A snorkeling holiday in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean, circa 1975.
Estate stam...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Cannes Sports' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1958: Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
'Cannes Sports'
Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Editi...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
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Find a wide variety of authentic Slim Aarons art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, pink, purple and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Slim Aarons in c print, archival pigment print, pigment print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Slim Aarons art, so small editions measuring 30 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Mark Shaw, Bob Willoughby, and Pico Garcez. Slim Aarons art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $2,500 and tops out at $6,230, while the average work can sell for $3,950.
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- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025Slim Aarons is arguably the best-known photographer of the rich and famous, although many other photographers have also taken photos of celebrities. However, Aarons stands out for having captured the 20th century’s international jet set and creating images that are at once candid and polished. Some notable people he immortalized in his images include Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Princess Grace of Monaco, Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos and Mick Jagger. Find a variety of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025The famous photographer of Palm Springs was Slim Aarons. An American photographer, he captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Palm Beach and other luxurious settings around the globe. 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 selection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025The famous photographer Slim is Slim Aarons. An American photographer, he 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. 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. Shop a collection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.