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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Artist: Slim Aarons
On The Coast Of Brazil Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nassau Speed Week
1963
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Competitors in an assortment of vehicles at the 1963 Nassau Speed Week.
unframed
c type print
printed 202...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'The Carlton Hotel' 1955 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Carlton Hotel'
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955.
Gorgeous print measuring a very large 30 x 30" inches / approx 76 ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
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
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 Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Surfing Brothers
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey's Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association) in Newport. Their father introduced the sport to the club in the 1930's.
Esta...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
'Luxury Dining' Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Luxury Dining (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo
Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Coll...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Bermudan Hostess, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Polly Trott Hornburg in front of her father's typical Bermudian house. She is wearing her ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Mara Lane At The Sands - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mara Lane At The Sands
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
'Las Brisas Hotel' Acapulco (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Las Brisas Hotel'
Apartments and pools at the La Concha Beach Club in Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1968.
Gorgeous print measuring 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Estate Edition Photograph (Poolside in Antibes)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bathers enjoy the sun by the pool at the Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, 1978. Aarons' iconic photograph depicts the legendary hotel made famous by Fitzgerald's Tender is the...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Zermatt Skiing, Swiss Alps, Estate Edition, Snowy Mountain Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This midcentury landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
In this scene of casual winter glamo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Eagle Club
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eagle Club
Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 30" inches / ca 101.6 x 76.2 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped C...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Neo-Classical Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Neo-Classical Pool
Mrs T. Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman’s parents in Palm Beach, Florida, 1985.
40 ...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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 Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas.
This is an estate...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
'Villa At Cuarton' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Villa At Cuarton'
Bathers by the pool at the home of Vanessa Somers McConnell at Cuarton, Costa de la Luz, Spain, September 1970.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate S...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice, Estate Edition, Gondolas on the Canal at Westin
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included.
Slim Aarons
Grand Hotel Excelsior, Ve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Antigua Beach Club (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Antigua Beach Club (1960) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The beach club at the Mill Reef Club on Antigua in the West Indies,
1960.
Addi...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Hotel Olden, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Urban Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people carrying their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961.
This is an estate stamped...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lounging In Verbier - Super Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
Size 72 x 48" inches / 183 x 122 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Color, Archival Pigment
'Skiing Essentials' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing - 'Skiing Essentials' (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
A couple prepares for a day's ski...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Alice Topping, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Socialite Alice Topping by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida.
This is an estate stam...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
'Nice Pool' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool'
1955. American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the oc...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Dining At The Eagle Club' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dining At The Eagle Club' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club in the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland, 1969.
Paper Size 24x20 i...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, 'The High Life' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Kaufmann Desert House
1977. (printed later)
C print
40 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
August 1977: Actor Georg...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Saks Fifth Avenue
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955.
30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Social Call' Slim Arons ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Social Call' by Slim Aarons
SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION PRINT
Numbered in ink to 150 only and emboss stamped on front.
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Aluminum
Sunbathing In Venice, Italy, 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 sunbatheing, wearing a novelty straw sun hat with built-in sunglasses, Venice.
Th...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Motorboats In Antibes Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Motorboats In Antibes
Motorboats moored on the coast near the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969.
Beautiful Riva motorboats are seen moored outside...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Zermatt Skiing' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Zermatt Skiing' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
Gorgeous print measuring 20 x 24" inches / ca 51 x 61 cm's.
Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Pellicano Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holidaymakers on the Tuscan coast at the Hotel Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, August 1969
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 20" inches / ca 76.2 x 50.8 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped C...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Zermatt Skiing 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing
The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 202...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Speedboat Landing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A motor boat arrives at a jetty in Porto Ercole, Italy. August 1973.
Slim Aarons
Speedboat Landing
1973 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print (C Print)
Estate stamped and hand nu...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour At The Kaufmann Desert House In Palm Springs
By Slim Aarons
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 13" x 20 1/8"
Frame Sz: 14 1/4" x 21 3/8"
In gilt bamboo frame w/ UV glass
Original double color plate from "A Wonderful Time" published 1974
Category
1970s Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Paper
Saks Fifth Ave, 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 young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Lambda
Cannes Watersports, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Step back in time to the sunlit shores of the French Riviera with Slim Aarons' Cannes Watersports. This exquisite photograph captures the quintessential spirit of the 1950s holiday g...
Category
1950s Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen,...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
Category
1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Eagle Club, Estate Edition, Midcentury Gstaad Ski Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this midcentury snowscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969.
Slim Aarons Estate E...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Caribe Hilton Beach (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caribe Hilton Beach, 1956
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A woman reclining in a hammock hung between palm trees on the beach at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puert...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Pool At Las Brisas
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Pool At Las Brisas, 1972
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexi...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, Haiti Holiday (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Haiti Holiday, 1981
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A woman wearing a translucent white blouse and holding a cocktail stands in a swimmi...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
'Ladies Of Lyford Cay' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Ladies Of Lyford Cay' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
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 Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pulitzer On The Beach 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pulitzer On The Beach - Oversize
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
silver gelatin print
paper size 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm
unframed
printed later
edition size 150 only
certificate of authenticity supplied
numbered in ink & blind embossed stamped Slim Aarons signature on front
Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency.
b/w black and white beach...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Skiing At St. Moritz' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing At St. Moritz' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Skiers on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color
'Backstage At La Scala' 1948 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print- Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Backstage At La Scala' 1948
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print- Oversize
A chorus girl reads a movie magazine in a dressing room at La Scala opera house, Milan, November 1948.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Silver Gelatin Print
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity supplied
Archive stamped and numbered in ink on the front
Paper size 40 x 40 / 102 x 102 cm
Printed 2020
OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE :
12 x 12 / 30 x 30 cm
16 x 16 / 40 x 40 cm
20 x 20 / 50 x 50 cm
30 x 30 / 76 x 76 cm
40 x 40 / 102 x 102 cm
50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
FRAMING:
Please note that this piece is unframed –
however, we offer a full framing service.
If you would like this piece framed, please contact us for a quote.
Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency.
b/w black and white relaxing luxury glamour 1940s 40s fashion...
Category
1940s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stam...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
'Lounging In Verbier' (Estate Stamped Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
This photograph epitomises the Travel, Lifestyle and Glamou...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Leisure in Antibes' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskiier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969.
Leisure in Antibes
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, French Riviera
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.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
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 Seascape Photography, Vintage Hotel du Cap Eden Roc, Vintage Pools, Vintage French Riviera, ocean, France, 70's French Riviera, seascape, red, Vintage beach...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool By The Sea - Oversize 1969
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool By The Sea
Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1969.
72 x 48" inches / 183 x 122 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection E...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Muffy Bancroft (1958) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Muffy Bancroft (1958) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Mrs. Thomas Bancroft Jnr (Peggy Bancroft) in the foyer of her Manhattan duplex,
circa 1958.
Additional Info...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Nassau Beach Hotel (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nassau Beach Hotel (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The outdoor swimming pool at Nassau Beach Hotel, Nassau, Bahamas, 1959.
The hotel was the first to built ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Palm Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Oz Tennis Stars
1956
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Australian tennis players Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall at the Newport Tennis week i...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Three skiers in New Hampshire, 1955.
A sign near them lists the local slopes and trails.
Additional Info...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A skier carrying his boots in New Hampshire, 1955.
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Unframed
Paper Size: 20x20''...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Nicholsons (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nicholsons (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Cafe Nicholson in New York,
1959.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 30x30''
Printed Later
Limited...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Tennis In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957.
Behind the...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Oz Tennis Stars (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Oz Tennis Stars (1956) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Australian tennis players Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall at the Newport Tennis week...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
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- 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.
- 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.