Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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
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 swimsuit and a chic straw sunhat adorned with a vibrant red ribbon.
Dominating the scene is a tropical holiday tree and candy cane themed umbrella, situated between two palm trees, further accentuated by a tray filled with neatly wrapped holiday gifts. The creative interplay between the inverted triangle of the chair and the conventional triangle of the umbrella culminates in a balanced yet dynamic composition.
With the midcentury tropical beach setting and warm orange color palette, this festive Slim Aarons photograph transcends seasons, making it a timeless piece to appreciate year-round.
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Marbella Club ' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marbella Club' by Slim Aarons
Guests relax by the pool of the Marbella Club, Marbella, Spain, August 1980.
This photograph epitomises the travel style...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Skiing In Gstaad ' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Gstaad' by Slim Aarons
L-R; Christine Camerana, Caroline Stoop, and Christine Semenenko Warrender prepare for a day on the slopes in Gstaad, Switzerland, February 1977
Thi...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
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 the glass roofed Garden Court of the...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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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 the glass roofed Garden Court of the...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Racing at Baden-Baden - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
'Harbour Isle Beach' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Harbour Isle Beach' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Holidaymakers on the beach at Harbour Isle in the Bahamas, March 1973.
Produce...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Poolside in Arizona - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
You Look Wonderful: Ski Champion Max Rieger & writer Meg O'Neil. Caucasus, Gudari
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1990: Alpine ski champion Max Rieger on the balcony of a villa in Gudari, in the Caucasus mountains,Georgia. With him is Meg O'Neil dressed in ski suit designed by Bogner and wearing with it an Aeroflot flight cap...
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1990s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Model Friend
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New York model, Jean Adams and friend share a drink on the beach at Acapulco, 1952
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30" inches / ca 76.2 x 76.2cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Colle...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Lech Ice Bar 1960 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar
The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The Hotel Pfefferkorn and Hotel Tannbergerhof are in the background.
30x30” / 76x76 cm - paper size
Estate S...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Howard Cushing in Newport'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Howard Cushing
1974 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Howard Cushing on a motorcycle outside the Cushin...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
NEW: Slim Aarons 'Dixieland Jam in Rome' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An impromptu concert in Rome with American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971), Earl 'Fatha' Hines (1905 - 1983) on piano and Jack Teagarden (1905 - 1964) on trom...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Harbour Island, Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Experience the nostalgia of seaside relaxation with this captivating Slim Aarons photograph, capturing a young couple at the beach on Harbour Island, Bahamas, in 1967. This photograph is a time capsule of coastal elegance and vintage beachwear...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
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 Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Marsha Gayle 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marsha Gayle 1985
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Laura Hawk, assistant to the photographer, relaxes by the pool at El Rincon, the von ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece. Taken in July 1961, the photograph shows a group of you...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Cortina D'Ampezzo (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982.
Slim Aarons
Cortina D'Ampezzo
Estate Edition
Purchaser will get the next number in the ed...
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1980s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Sports Car Couple, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1955: John Bryant with his AC sports car in Kinnerton Place, London SW1, Printed Later. His passenger is Margaret McAulay.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 ...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Nice Pool' - Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
1955. American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs. F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Hotel De Paris In Monaco
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Hotel De Paris In Monaco - Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
The entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 19...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Ocho Rios, Jamaica ' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ocho Rios by Slim Aarons
Mr and Mrs John James stroll on their fifteen-acre estate that blossoms with half a million poinsettias, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 197...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Palm Bay Club' 1965 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Bay Club' 1965 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A young woman at the Palm Bay Club, Miami, Florida, USA, circa 1965. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Dining In Gstaad 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dining In Gstaad
Holidaymakers at a ski lodge at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1961.
60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s maritime photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the British ocean liner 'SS Queen of Bermuda' in Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda.
This is an es...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
'Roca Llisa' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Roca Llisa' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Fosca, Vera, and Fiona Bertran holidaying in Roca Llisa, on the island of Ibiza, Spain, 1978.
Produced from the original...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Ocean Club
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150).
A cross-shaped ornamental pond and fountain at The Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas,...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Surfing in Biarritz
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Author and screenwriter Peter Viertel (1920 - 2007) with his surfboard on the beach at Biarritz, France, 1960.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of au...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Out Islands
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sailing boats in the Out Islands of the Bahamas, April 1964.
20 x 30 inches
$3000
20 x 24 inches
$2500
16 x 20 inches
$2150
12 x 16 inches
$1800
Complimentary dealer shipping to...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons - Estate Edition - Princess Bianca
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Princess Bianca Hanau-Schaumburg at her Gstaad chalet, 1985.
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 60" inches / ca 101.6 x 152.4cm’s paper size.
Estate St...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiing In Gstaad
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
A vapour trail above skiers on a ski slope in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1961 (Photo by Slim Aarons).
This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beautifully documented by Aarons. In his words, he loved to photograph 'attractive people in attractive places, doing attractive things'.
A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C Type photograph (unframed).
Limited edition to 150 only
numbered and stamped
by The Slim Aarons Estate on verso.
Supplied with certificate of authenticity.
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Stamped by the Estate on right and numbered in ink on left - limited edition to 150 only.
Produced utilising the original transparency held at archive source.
FRAMING:
Please note that this piece is unframed – however, we offer a full framing service.
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Switzerland 60s ski resort Gstaad town centre ski village...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Holiday In The Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Scuba diving in the Bahamas, 1959. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beautifully documented by Aarons. In his words, he loved to photograph 'attractive people in attractive places, doing attractive things'.
A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C Type photograph (unframed).
Limited edition to 150 only
numbered and stamped
by The Slim Aarons Estate on verso.
Supplied with certificate of authenticity.
Gorgeous print measuring 24 x 20" inches / ca 60.9 x 50.8 cm’s paper size.
Stamped by the Estate on right and numbered in ink on left - limited edition to 150 only.
Produced utilising the original transparency held at archive source.
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.
We ship regularly using Fedex Express services and shipping to all international locations.
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Bahamas Caribbean sea family time love father and daughter siblings emerald green dark blue blue seaside snorkelling scuba diving water...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
'Habitation Leclerc' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Habitation Leclerc' 1975
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Bathers walking down steps to the swimming pool at Habitation Leclerc, Haiti, January 1975.
They...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Snowmass Picnic (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A stand-up fondue picnic for skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado which has more than fifty miles of trails and snowfields. The village was opened in 1967.
Estate stamped and hand...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
'Dali's Party' Estate Edition, ft Surrealist Salvador Dali in New York
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking stick and wearing a mustache, and the woman smiles with mischief, wearing extraordinary mid-century dress and jewels. In Dali's work and life, the magical, mysterious, artistic and alchemical mix. The vintage and classic mingles with the bizarre and strange in this historic photograph of an avant-garde legend.
Dali's Party, 1959 (Salvador Dali in New York)
Slim Aarons Estate Edition Photograph
Lambda Print
Estate Embossed with 2 Certificates of Authenticity
Printed Later
4 sizes available
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí de Púbol gcYC (/ˈdɑːli, dɑːˈliː/;[1] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli]; Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli];[2] 11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age, he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931, and is one of the most famous Surrealist paintings. Dalí lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) before leaving for the United States in 1940 where he achieved commercial success. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism, and recent scientific developments.
Dalí's artistic repertoire included painting, graphic arts, film, sculpture, design and photography, at times in collaboration with other artists. He also wrote fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays and criticism. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships. To the dismay of those who held his work in high regard, and to the irritation of his critics, his eccentric and ostentatious public behavior often drew more attention than his artwork. His public support for the Francoist regime, his commercial activities and the quality and authenticity of some of his late works have also been controversial. His life and work were an important influence on other Surrealists, pop art and contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
There are two major museums devoted to Salvador Dalí's work: the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain, and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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 *
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Estate Edition, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons
Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982.
'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons is a vibrant testa...
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1980s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Life In The Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Life In The Bahamas
A woman sitting in a hanging chair while having a drink in a bar in the Bahamas, in April 1967. A group of drinkers stand and sit at the bar in the background.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Paper size 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm
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.
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.
Printed 2022
Caribbean Sea luxury island Bahamas yacht club yachts boating in the Caribbean vivid colors red yellow blue white emerald green light green blue sky light blue clouds palm trees wonderful life people having fun relaxing time summer weather hot and sunny day white sand beach bikinis...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Skaal House, Estate Edition (Snowscape in Vintage Stowe, Vermont)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The glass-fronted triangular Skaal House, lit up at night, in the Stowe Mountain ski resort in Stowe, Vermont, 1962. A pair of skis lean against the wall b...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Pool at Lake Tahoe - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Leonard Dalsemer, Lyford Cay, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
This image features a classic Slim Aarons contrast: between the manmade and the beauty of nature. It's an expertly composed scene of midcentury glamour that still feels casual and light. The azure blue of the sky contrasts with the deeper blues and aquas of the sea, and the sparkling turquoise of the pool. While human figures anchor the scene, the expertly captured contrast of natural grandeur and architectural geometry make this scene truly magnificent.
Image Description: In the background, leafy green palm trees and other trees blow in the breeze before a bright azure sky and slightly deeper blue ocean surf. In the foreground, two couples walk the pool deck in pastel pink and green clothing. Three children play in the turquoise pool. A verdant green hedge lines the front of the image, anchored by seven white florals in white pots. In the background is a pool cabana...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Apres Ski Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley, California, 1961. Second from right is American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing (1913 – 2006), who ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Celebrity Cruise' Costa Smeralda (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Celebrity Cruise' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
British comedian Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) holidays with Princess Margaret (1930 - 2002, right) on the Aga Khan's yacht on the Cos...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Estate Edition, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons
Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982.
'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons is a vibrant testa...
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1980s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Tennis In The Bahamas Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In The Bahamas' by Slim Aarons
It really doesn't get much more fabulous than this.
A realtively new discovery in the Archive -two fashionably dressed women in tennis outfit...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice
1957
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A waiter serves fruit to...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
'Saint-Tropez Beach' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint-Tropez Beach' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The beach at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
Produced from the original transparency
Certific...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Color
'Dinner Jazz' 1949 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dinner Jazz' 1949 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1898 – 1971) enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome. (Photo by Slim Aaro...
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1940s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Underwater Drink, Las Brisas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Slim Aarons
Underwater Drink
Acapulco
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector will receive the next number in the edition
Modern printing from original transparency
C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color
Paper weight 210gms
Matte Satin Surface
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.
#slimaarons #acapulco. Vintage scene...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Zermatt Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing
Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
Gorgeous print measuring 72 x 48" inches / ca 182.8 x 121.9 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'New England Skiing' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'New England Skiing' 1955
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Limited to 150 only
Two women recline on improvised sun-beds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955 (Photo by...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Lounging In Gstaad' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Gstaad' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 19...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - South Africa Swimming Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150).
A luxury house in South Africa with stairs leading to the swimming pool in the garden, 1958.
This photograph epitomises t...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
'Blue Seas' 1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Blue Seas' 1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
August 1984: Holidaymakers' yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. (Photo by Slim Aar...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Leonard Dalsemer - Limited Edition Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital
'Beauty And The Beast' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Beauty And The Beast' 1959
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversize
Mrs. George (Daphne) Cameron sits on a tiger pelt in the trophy room of Laddie Sanford’s Palm Beach...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
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.
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 Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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.
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 Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons - Tennis In The Bahamas - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Tennis In The Bahamas - Estate
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150).
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Baham...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
'Poolside Backgammon' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Backgammon' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972.
Produced from the origina...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
'Fishing Boats' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Fishing Boats' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A fisherman in his boat at a Sicilian harbour, 1975.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenti...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Sardinian Holiday' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sardinian Holiday' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Selvaggia Borromeo enjoys a yachting holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, 1967.
Produced from the original...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Palm Beach Idyll, Florida, 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 couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida.
This is an estate stamped and hand ...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Harbour Island' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Harbour Island' in the Bahamas, 1970
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of th...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Legendary photographer Slim Aarons relaxes in a self portrait shot in Athens, near the Acropolis.
Slim Aarons said, "I love a solo holiday. It tends to refresh the part of oneself that is most depleted by modern life — patience.
"Let me dispel a few myths. You will be lonely. No: you won’t. My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependency on someone to distract your attention.
"I’ve had solo pints of Guinness in the pubs of County Kerry and County Cork. I’ve walked across the sage- and juniper-scented maquis of Corsica on a spring day, where you can still find the world of Napoleon’s childhood. More than once I went to the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Laguna Beach Surfers'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Laguna Beach Surfers
1970
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Three surfers with their boards at...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Catherine Wilke' Capri (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Catherine Wilke' Capri (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri, 1980.
A typical 'Slim' photograph chronicling the young a...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Skiing In Stowe
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Stowe
Two women in knitwear, leaning on ski sticks, while standing in the Stowe Mountain ski resort in Stowe, Vermont, 1962. Behind the two women is a sign board offering ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kings Of Hollywood Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kings Of Hollywood 1957
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart (1908 – 1997)
enjoying...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiing In Gstaad
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
A vapour trail above skiers on a ski slope in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1961 (Photo by Slim Aarons).
This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beautifully documented by Aarons. In his words, he loved to photograph 'attractive people in attractive places, doing attractive things'.
A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C Type photograph (unframed).
Limited edition to 150 only
numbered and stamped
by The Slim Aarons Estate on verso.
Supplied with certificate of authenticity.
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Stamped by the Estate on right and numbered in ink on left - limited edition to 150 only.
Produced utilising the original transparency held at archive source.
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.
We ship regularly using Fedex Express services and shipping to all international locations.
Keywords
Switzerland 60s ski resort Gstaad town centre ski village...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Peggy Guggenheim
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1978: Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979) in the Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice. The palace houses her private art collection, including Picass...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Leisure In Antibes' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Leisure In Antibes' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a water-skier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivie...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Zermatt Skiing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Zermatt Skiing
1968
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, M...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pool at Lake Tahoe (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (191...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Slim Aarons figurative photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of figurative photography 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, purple, green and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Slim Aarons in c print, silver gelatin print, digital 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 figurative photography, so small editions measuring 10 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Mark Shaw, Neal Slavin, and Bob Gruen. Slim Aarons figurative photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,350 and tops out at $7,015, while the average work can sell for $2,750.