Slim Aarons Landscape 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
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family enjoying a quiet beach on Andros Island.
This is an estate stamped and hand num...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Holiday In Capri, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carla Vuccino and Bianca Volpato holiday with their friends on Capri, Italy, July 1958.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Jhelum River, Jammu and Kashmir, India (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A boat trip on the Jhelum River near Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, India, 1961. The boat is called the 'HB Cutty Sark'.
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Backgammon by the Pool, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Women playing backgammon while sunbathing at the Habitation Leclerc pool, January 1975
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, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday."
Slim Aarons
Backgammon by the pool...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Los Leones, St Barts - 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 Landscape Photography
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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc Estate Edition Photograph: Poolside in Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' 1976 photograph of bathers at the Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc in Antibes, France, is a masterful capture of vintage glamour and the epitome of Mediterranean elegance. This iconic image, steeped in the lore of the French Riviera, juxtaposes the serene turquoise pool with the rugged beauty of the coastline, creating a visual dialogue between nature and human ingenuity. The composition, featuring sunbathers in minimal swimwear against a backdrop of majestic rocks and distant mountains, evokes a timeless sense of leisure and luxury. Aarons' lens immortalizes a moment in time where the world's elite converge to bask in the sun-drenched splendor of this legendary retreat.
The Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc, made famous by F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night," has long been a sanctuary for the titans of literature, film, art, music, politics, and high society. This photograph not only captures the physical allure of the locale but also its storied history as a playground for the influential and the illustrious, which includes figures from literature and music (Cole Porter, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stefan Zweig, Noël Coward), film (Marlene Dietrich, Alain Delon, Elizabeth Taylor, who brought all of her husbands there, and every Hollywood A-lister in town for Cannes), art (Chagall, Picasso, Matisse), music (John and Yoko, Jane and Serge, Ella Fitzgerald), politics (Churchill, De Gaulle, the Kennedys), and high society (the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson). Aarons' work, with its precise attention to color and composition, invites collectors to own a piece of this casual glamor, where every detail speaks to a legacy of opulence and sophistication.
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc, 1976 (Printed Later)
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
6 sizes available
Framing options available
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
* Undercurrent Projects is 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 *
Antibes is a resort town between Cannes and Nice on the French Riviera (Côte d’Azur). It’s known for its old town enclosed by 16th-century ramparts with the star-shaped Fort Carré. This overlooks luxury yachts moored at the Port Vauban marina. The forested Cap d’Antibes peninsula, dotted with grand villas, separates Antibes from Juan-les-Pins, a chic resort with buzzing nightlife and the Jazz à Juan music festival.
Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. He's also been credited with inspiring the sun-soaked, escapist style of top Instagram influencers.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday.”
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Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc photograph, Vintage Antibes...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Porto Ercole - Italy - Slim Aarons 20th century colour photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Beautiful greens of th...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Mustique Hammock' (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity f...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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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...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Lounging in Verbier' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss Alps, 1964: This landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holiday-makers taking in the sunset on a white snowy mountain top in Verbier, Switzerland in 1964.
In classic snowscape of midcentury glamour, winter travelers dressed in 1960s ski fashion relax on colorful red, yellow, and green sun loungers, viewing the blue and white Swiss Alps mountain peaks in the background.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Verbier Vacation
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
Modern printing from original transparency
Captured 1964 (printed later)
Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector will receive the next number in the edition
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.
This is a genuine Slim Aarons Estate photograph, estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
We are pleased to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic.
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.
Visual Description: In one of Slim Aarons most popular and iconic series, bright, colorful notes of red, yellow, blue and green punctuate the clean white snow, with majestic peaks in the background. In the foreground, holiday-goers, lounge in a perfect vintage moment of casual winter glamour. Snowy mountaintops rise in the background. Verbier is a stunning mountain and winter ski destination in the Swiss Alps, known for its notoriously challenging slopes as well as its famous apres-ski scene. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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The Carlton Hotel (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Carlton Hotel (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlto...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons - Lounging In Verbier Limited Estate 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.
Gorgeous print measuring a large oversize 40 x 30" inches /...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
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...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Bermuda View (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda View (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
View from the Bermudiana Hotel looking towards Paget, in the foreground the Royal Bermuda Yacht club,
1957.
...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
'Vuccino And Rava' SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Vuccino And Rava' by Slim Aarons
Limited Edition Estate Print
limited to 150 only
numbered in ink & emboss stamped.
40 x 30 " inches paper size
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimmi...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Lake Tahoe Trip' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
This is a vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aar...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Palm Springs Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial designer Raymond Loewy (1893 - 1986, centre, standing), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and Helen Dzo Dzo (second from right)
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, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday."
Slim Aarons
Palm Springs Party...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Snowmass Picnic, Colorado, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Snowmass Picnic, Colorado, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This late 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a stand-up fondue...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Poolside Reflections, Beverly Hills Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Reflections, Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957
Chromogenic Lambda print
Holiday makers relaxing by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Snowmass Village
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Village
Two fashionably attired women stand in the foreground of a snowy landscape with a helicopter on the slopes of Snowmass Village, in P...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Snorkelling In The Shallows (1969) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snorkeling In The Shallows (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A group of people snorkeling off a small boat in Malta, circa 1959.
Additional Informa...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Palace Hotel (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palace Hotel (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The Palace Hotel in Gstaad,
1961.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Pap...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Campbell Falls Picnic (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Campbell Falls Picnic (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A family enjoy a picnic on the bank of the Whiting River near Campbell Falls,
Massachusetts...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Color, 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...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Il Canille' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Il Canille' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), Printed Later
Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo overlooking the waters off ...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Hotel Il Pellicano - Porto Ercole - Slim Aarons 20th century color photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Il Pellicano' by Slim Aarons
The beachside pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
This photograph epitomise...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Aluminum
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Lake Tahoe Ladies
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Ladies
A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Editi...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Arons Estate Edition - Cortina d'Ampezzo
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Cortina d'Ampezzo - Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Snowboarding in Cortina d’Ampezzo, March 1988 (Photo by Slim Aarons).
This photograph epitomises the...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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C Print, Color
Slim Aarons - Bermuda View - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
View from the Bermudiana Hotel looking towards Paget, in the foreground the Royal Bermuda Yacht club, 1957.
Gorgeous print measuring an large 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s
Es...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Cat-Shaped Pool, Estate Edition, Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Cat-Shaped Pool, a newly available Estate Edition photograph, features a charming swimming pool in the shape of a cat at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami, circa 1955. This historic shot of the pool was captured just after the the Fontainebleau's opening in 1954.
Visual Description: Guests enjoying the newly opened turquoise cat-shaped pool at the Fontainebleu Hotel, designed by Morris Lapidus. The deck features sunny, graphic yellow and black umbrellas, as well as red, yellow and blue striped umbrellas and loungers. The cat's tail is a vintage wooden diving board, its ears are stairs, and its nose is a slide. Designed by Morris Lapidus.
Slim Aarons
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed Later
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.
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: vintage '50s florida, 50's Miami, vintage poolside, vintage swim fashion, vintage slim aarons, Fontainebleau Hotel, vintage Miami beach, Miami architecture...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Poolside Party Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann
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, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday."
Slim Aarons
Poolside Party...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boats in the harbour of Porto Ercole (Port'Ercole), Tuscany, August 1967.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons E...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
'Hotel Il San Pietro' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Il San Pietro' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Guests at the Hotel Il San Pietro in Positano, Italy, August 1979.
In his words, he photographed 'be...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'La Dolce Vita: Vuccino &Rava, Capri' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat, on the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Positano Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, 1979.
Slim Aarons
Positano Beach
1979 (printed later)
C print
Estate st...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Tennis At Newport Casino'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Susanna Boylston Bolton
1965 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: A view from the umbrella boxes towards t...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Neo-Classical Pool 1985
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - 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.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Chromogenic print
paper size 10 x 12" inches / 25 x 30 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.
swimming pool fashion...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation' 1964 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier Vacation'
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964.
20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Sli...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Portofino - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino
1985, The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Photograph
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 Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
'Kaufmann Desert House' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition C print
' Kaufmann Desert House '
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for bus...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Digging For Clams 1960 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Digging For Clams
Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay, circa 1960.
Silver gelatin print
Slim Aarons silver gelatin...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Chalet Costi 1968 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Chalet Costi
Skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968.
60x60" inches / 152 x 152 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Cortina D'Ampezzo 1962
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Cortina D'Ampezzo
Skiers at Cortina D’Ampezzo in Italy, 1962.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Chromogenic print
paper size 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 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.
1960s 60s fashion...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape 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 Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A swimming pool, seen through the fronds of a palm tree, with two people swimming and a group of people sitting at tables at the poolside in the Bahamas, May 1967. Beyond the pool is...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Lyford Cay Fire Department' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The fire service in Lyford Cay, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, April 1966
Slim Aarons
Lyford Cay Fire Service
Slim Aarons Estate Edit...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Campbell Falls Picnic, Massachusetts, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family enjoying a picnic on the bank of the Whiting River near Campbell Falls, Massachu...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Hotel Hacienda, 1978 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Photograph
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 Landscape Photography
Materials
Digital, Color, Photographic Paper, C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Caribe Hilton Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
A woman reclining in a hammock hung between palm trees on the beach at the Caribe Hilton in San...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Il Canille' Midcentury
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers waiting for the c...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers waiting for the c...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Tina Onassis 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Tina Onassis - Oversize
1958: Athina Livanos Onassis (Tina Onassis) the first wife of Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis rela...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Bad Luck Gloria 1951
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Bad Luck Gloria
2nd April 1951: American actor Jose Ferrer (1912 – 1992) commiserates with Gloria Swanson after losing out in the contest for the Best Actress oscar, while the winner, Judy Holliday...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel' by Slim Aarons
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Mara Lane at the sand - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Glamorous, Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging and sunbathing by the pool in a striking red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
Typically 'Slim Poolside...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons - Beverly Hills Pool Party - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Beverly Hills Pool Party - Estate Stamped
A party by James Pendleton’s pool in Beverly Hills, California, 1952. Pendleton’s house was later bought by Hollywood director Robert Evans...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giacomo and Stefania Mantegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como. Brilliant green trees contrast with the vivid orange, reds and turquoise of the architecture. Four boats can are afloat on the deep blue of the lake.
Slim Aarons
Giacomo Montegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency
Printed Later
Certificate of Authenticity included
Collector will get the next number in the edition
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 *
Now in his 70s, Giacomo Mantegazza...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Verbier Vacation, Estate Edition, Swiss Alps Mountain Snow Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss Alps, 1964: This landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holiday-makers taking in the sunset on a white snowy mountain top in Verbier, Swit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Hotel Las Brisas, Estate Edition, late 1960s Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Las Brisas
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Apartments and pools at the La Concha Beach Club in Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1968
...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mittersill Castle, Austria, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a glider resting on the ground by Mittersill Castle, Austria.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Lounging in Gstaad' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1961.
SLIM AARONS
Lounging in Gstaad
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Verbier Vacation' Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier Vacation' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aar...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Print - CZ's House 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
CZ's House
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 Beac...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Marbella Club Bather' Mid-Century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
"Marbella Club Bather," a 1976 Slim Aarons photograph, captures mid-century modern Mediterranean luxury. Limited C-print (1/150), estate-stamped, authenticated.
Slim Aarons
Marbella...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
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 Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Motorboat at Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc, Estate Edition Photograph, Antibes, Waterski
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A motorboat, used to tow waterskiiers, moored at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969. Aarons' iconic photograph depicts the legendary hotel made f...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Hotel Las Brisas, Estate Edition, late 1960s Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Las Brisas
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Apartments and pools at the La Concha Beach Club in Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1968
...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sunbathers in Miami, 1955 - 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...
Category
20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Cranmore Mountain Skiers
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, 1955.
(Photo by Slim Aarons).
This photograp...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Saint-Tropez Boucherie - Oversize
A boucherie or butcher’s shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
(Photo by Sli...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons landscape photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Slim Aarons landscape photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of landscape 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, pink and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Slim Aarons in digital print, lambda print, laser 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 landscape photography, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Robert Farber, Sean Scully, and Deborah Eddy. Slim Aarons landscape photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $550 and tops out at $21,150, while the average work can sell for $3,350.