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Item Ships From: London
Portofino, Italy Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino, Italy
1985
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests relax on the terrace at the villa of Umberto and Pucci Nordio, Portofino, 1985
unframed
c type prin...
Category
1980s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Emerald Marilyn - Signed limited edition Pop Art - Marilyn Monroe
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Emerald Marilyn
Oversize Signed limited edition - Pop Art - Marilyn Monroe
by the London based contemporary pop art
image creator and artist, BATIK.
Measures approximately 30 x 2...
Category
2010s Pop Art London - Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Sunbathing In Antibes Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Antibes
1976
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stocking Island, Bahamas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Stocking Island, Bahamas
1964
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A high angle view of people swimming next to the ketch ‘Traveler II’ , Stocking Island, Bahamas, 19...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marilyn Manson - signed Limited Edition Oversize print (1998)
By Kevin Westenberg
Located in London, GB
Marilyn Manson - Signed Limited Edition Oversize print
NME Cover Shoot
August 14, 1998
Los Angeles
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
Unframed
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Limite...
Category
1990s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Taormina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Taormina
The coastal town of Taormina in Sicily, Italy, March 1963.
24 x 20" - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Lim...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Britney Dreams 2004 Markus Klinko Limited Estate Edition
By Markus Klinko
Located in London, GB
Britney Dreams 2004
Photo by Markus Klinko
Limited Estate Edition
C Print
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity supplied
Paper size 20×24 inches/ 5...
Category
Early 2000s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
C Print
White Pagoda Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
White Pagoda
1970
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
In 1044 AD building of some 15,000 pagodas, temples and palaces started on a sixtee...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Pool At Las Hadas' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool At Las Hadas' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests round the pool at Las Hadas, Manzanillo, Mexico, 1974.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Color
Marbles Championship Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marbles Championship
A group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City, 1948
16×20 inches - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
Category
1940s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Eagle Club Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eagle Club
Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969.
16 x 20" - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printe...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Having A Topping Time Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Having A Topping Time
1959
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach. A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons
unframe...
Category
1950s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sailing In Lyford Cay Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing In Lyford Cay
1966
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A crew member tends to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas, April 1966.
unframed
c type pri...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Harbour Island Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harbour Island
Handbags and hat shop at Harbour Island in the Bahamas, 1970.
20 x 24" - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Barbados Bliss Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Barbados Bliss
Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, 1976
20 x 20" - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Editio...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Cap Juluca Hotel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cap Juluca Hotel
1992
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Patricia and Margaret O’Neil at the Cap Juluca Hotel in Cap Juluca, Anguilla, 1992.
unframed
c type print
...
Category
1990s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Skier in Vermont Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A Skier in Vermont
1962
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A skier at the Stowe Mountain Resort, Vermont, USA, March 1962
unframed
c type print
printed 2023
20 × 1...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sugarbush Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing
Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960.
20 x 24" - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed i...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Relaxing At Lake Tahoe Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Relaxing At Lake Tahoe
1959
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
unframed
c type
printed 2023...
Category
1950s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Skiers in Lech Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiers in Lech
1979
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Skiers line up for a hike to ski resort Zurs from Lech, Austria, February 1979.
unframed
c type print
printe...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Apres Ski Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski
1961
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley, California, 1961. Second from right is American lawyer and b...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beverly Hills Pool Party Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Pool Party
1952
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A party by James Pendleton’s pool in Beverly Hills, California, 1952. Pendleton’s house was later b...
Category
1950s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Skiing In Seefeld Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Seefeld
1985
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A group of men and women go cross-country skiing in Seefeld, Austria, 1985.
unframed
c type print
printed...
Category
1980s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Christmas Traffic Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Christmas Traffic
1953
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Christmas trees and red and white automobile light trails on Park Avenue, New York, at Christmas time, Dec...
Category
1950s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lord Of All I Survey Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lord Of All I Survey
1959
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
The youngest peer in England, seven year old Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron and 10th Barone...
Category
1950s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Florida Palms Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Florida Palms
A view of palm trees at a beach resort in Boca Raton, Florida, April 1978
20 x 20" - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Pr...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
The Colour Of Money - Al Capone and Pablo Escobar BATIK signed limited edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
The Colour Of Money
Al Capone and Pablo Escobar by BATIK signed limited edition POP ART print
Paper Size 20x16" inches / 51 x 41 cm
Signed & numbered ...
Category
2010s Pop Art London - Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Peter Viertel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Peter Viertel
1960
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Author and screenwriter Peter Viertel (1920 – 2007) with his surfboard on the be...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Poolside Secrets Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Secrets
Flo Smith (left) and Lily Pulitzer at a pool party, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1961.
20 × 16 inches - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Pho...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Hugh Hefner Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hugh Hefner
American publisher Hugh Hefner, founder of ‘Playboy’ magazine, surrounded by erotica at the Playboy Club in Chicago, 1961.
24 x 20" - paper size
Estate Stamped Coll...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Killer Joe Piro Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Killer Joe Piro
1964
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
American dance instructor ‘Killer’ Joe Piro (1921 – 1989) dances past the park in New York, July 1964
unfra...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Faithful Couple Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Faithful Couple
1968
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Singer Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones stand in front of a gilt framed portrait...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tuscan Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tuscan Holiday
1969
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Holidaymakers on the Tuscan coast at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, August 1969.
unframed
c type pr...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
On The Slopes Of Sugarbush Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
On The Slopes Of Sugarbush
1960
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A group of people relaxing in a chalet in the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort, one of the largest ski resorts in New England, in Warren, Vermont, USA, circa 1960. People are sitting around playing cards and board games, with a grouo in the foreground sitting around a polar bear rug...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Coming Ashore Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Coming Ashore
1973
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel ...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
J. Gordon Douglas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
J. Gordon Douglas
Mr. and Mrs. J Gordon Douglas in the formal gardens of their residence, Santa Barbara, California, USA, circa 1970.
20 x 20" - paper size
Estate Stamped Colle...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Satin Seduction Ladies Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Satin Seduction
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 – 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed.
unframed...
Category
1950s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Oz Tennis Stars Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Oz Tennis Stars
1956
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Australian tennis players Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall at the Newport Tennis week i...
Category
1950s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Harbour Isle Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harbour Isle Beach
1973
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Holidaymakers on the beach at Harbour Isle in the Bahamas, March 1973.
unframed
c type print
printed 202...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Villa Nirvana Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Villa Nirvana
1972
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
unfra...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nassau Speed Week Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nassau Speed Week
1963
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Competitors in an assortment of vehicles at the 1963 Nassau Speed Week.
unframed
c type print
printed 202...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
John Huston Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
John Huston
1979
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
April 1979: American film director John Huston walking barefoot through a garden at Puerto Vallarta in Mexico
u...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Boy Baron Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boy Baron
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
The youngest peer in England, seven year old Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron and 10th Baronet Hesketh, ...
Category
1950s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Freeport Yachts Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Freeport Yachts
Yachts in a marina in Freeport, in the Bahamas, April 1969.
20 × 16 inches - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Only One Marilyn - Signed limited edition Pop Art - Marilyn Monroe
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Only One Marilyn
Oversize Signed limited edition - Pop Art - Marilyn Monroe
by the London based contemporary pop art
image creator and artist, BATIK.
Measures approximately 40 x ...
Category
2010s Pop Art London - Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
View From Il Pellicano Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
View From Il Pellicano
1991
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off the ...
Category
1990s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hotel Du Cap Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap
1976
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
An aerial view of the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
unframed
c type print
printed 2023...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc
1976
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
An aerial view of the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1976.
unframed
...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chateau Saint-Martin Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Chateau Saint-Martin
1986
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
An outdoor luncheon by the swimming pool of the Chateau Saint-Martin, a luxury hotel in Vence on the Co...
Category
1980s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mazatlan Seaside Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mazatlan Seaside
Holidaymakers at a seaside pool at Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984.
20 x 24" - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Print...
Category
1980s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Lech Ice Bar Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar
1960
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Skiers enjoy a drink by the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960.
unframed
c type print
printed ...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Positano Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano Beach
1979
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, ...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Princess Pia Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Princess Pia
1980
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Princess Pia Ruspoli laying on a lounger by a swimming pool on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980.
unf...
Category
1980s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Camelback Inn Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Camelback Inn
A view of the Camelback Inn, Scottsdale Arizona, April 1967
16×20 inches - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
David Bailey Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
September 1968: English photographer David Bailey on the Italian island of Capri
16 x 20" - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aaro...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero 1967
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fishing Boats Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fishing Boats
Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico, 1952.
20 x 20" - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limi...
Category
1950s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Von Oswald House Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Von Oswald House
1986
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A group of people relax in the garden at the house of Johanna Von Oswald, 1986
unframed
c type print
print...
Category
1980s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Villa Nirvana Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Villa Nirvana
1972
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
unframed...
Category
1970s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Penthouse Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Penthouse Pool
1961
by Slim Aarons
printed 2023
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961
unframed
c type
Limited to 1...
Category
1960s Modern London - Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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