$3,000
Slim Aarons, 'Il Pellicano Pool' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The seaside pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, September 1986.
C Print
Il Pellicano Pool, Estate Edition, Seascape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969 Slim Aarons Il Pellicano Pool, 1969 Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Estate Edition...
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Slim Aarons, 'View From Il Pellicano' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The image was taken from Hotel Il Pellicano. Slim Aarons View From Il Pellicano 1991 C print (Printed later) Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certific...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Bar' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Bar by Slim Aarons Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980.
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Slim Aarons 'Poolside Bar' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Bar by Slim Aarons Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980.
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Pellicano Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holidaymakers on the Tuscan coast at the Hotel Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, August 1969 Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 20" inches / ca 76.2 x 50.8 cm’s paper size.
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Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Pool, 1969 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969 Slim Aarons Il Pellicano Pool, 1969 Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Estate Edition...
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Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Pool, 1969 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969 Slim Aarons Il Pellicano Pool, 1969 Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Estate Edition...
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'Pellicano Beach' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pellicano Beach' Boats at a jetty by the beach at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969.
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Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1973 - Tuscany Hotel Crystal Waters Coastal View
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Sister images by Slim Aarons of Porto Ercole and Il Pellicano Hotel are available, Sister images are photographs that were taken by around the same time or in the same place.
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Pellicano Pool 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pellicano Pool 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests around the pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size ...
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Pellicano Beach 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pellicano Beach 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Boats at a jetty by the beach at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper ...
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Pellicano Beach 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pellicano Beach 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Boats at a jetty by the beach at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969. 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper ...
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Pellicano Pool 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pellicano Pool 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969 30 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size E...
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Pellicano Pool 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pellicano Pool 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969 40 x 30" inches / 102 x 76 cm paper size ...
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Il Pellicano Pool - Porto Ercole Il Pellicano Hotel Tuscany Italian Riviera
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Il Pellicano Pool - Porto Ercole Il Pellicano Hotel Tuscany Italian Riviera by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print.
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Pellicano Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pellicano Pool Guests around the pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Vane's Villa, 1987 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Guests at Vane Ivanovic's villa in Cap de Formentor, Majorca, Sp...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Vane's Villa, 1987 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Guests at Vane Ivanovic's villa in Cap de Formentor, Majorca, Sp...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Vane's Villa, 1987 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Guests at Vane Ivanovic's villa in Cap de Formentor, Majorca, Sp...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Tuscan Holiday' 1969 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tuscan Holiday' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Holidaymakers on the Tuscan coast at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, August 1969.
C Print, Color
Il Pellicano Hotel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Il Pellicano Hotel 1980 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980.
Archival Pigment
$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'Il Pellicano Hotel' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980.
C Print
Il Pellicano Hotel Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Il Pellicano Hotel Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980.
Color, Archival Pigment
Speedboat Landing - Il Pellicano Hotel Porto Ercole Tuscany Italy Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Speedboat Landing - Il Pellicano Hotel Porto Ercole Tuscany Italy Photograph by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print.
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Il Pellicano Hotel, Poolside Porto Ercole, Italy. Red, Blue, Turquoise
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980.
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Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel' 1980 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Il Pellicano Hotel' Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate S...
Archival Pigment
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.
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Tennis'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An Aston Martin DB6 sports car driving past the tennis courts at Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
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Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Tennis'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An Aston Martin DB6 sports car driving past the tennis courts at Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
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Porto Ercole, 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
C Print
Porto Ercole, 1973
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
C Print
Il Pellicano Tennis, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An Aston Martin DB6 sports car driving past the tennis courts at Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
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Il Pellicano Tennis, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An Aston Martin DB6 sports car driving past the tennis courts at Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
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Slim Aarons, 'Porto Ercole' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
C Print
Poolside Bar, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980.
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Poolside Bar, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980.
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Poolside Bar, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980.
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II Pellicano Hotel, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980.
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II Pellicano Hotel, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980.
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II Pellicano Hotel, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980.
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Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
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Porto Ercole, Italy, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
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Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
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Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' 1973 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Archival Pigment
'Porto Ercole' 1973 Italy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Archival Pigment
'Porto Ercole' 1973 Italy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Archival Pigment
'Tuscan Holiday' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tuscan Holiday' Holidaymakers on the Tuscan coast at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, August 1969.
Archival Pigment
'Porto Ercole' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Color, Archival Pigment
'Poolside Bar' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Bar' Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980.
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Poolside Bar
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Guests at a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980 Gorgeous print measuring 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Poolside Bar
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Guests at a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980 Gorgeous print measuring 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Il Pellicano Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1987.
Archival Pigment
Il Pellicano Tennis Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Il Pellicano Tennis 1973 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition An Aston Martin DB6 sports car driving past the tennis courts at Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tus...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Bar 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Bar 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper ...
Archival Pigment
Porto Ercole 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 ...
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Porto Ercole 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973. 30 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 ...
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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.
Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
Find a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art on 1stDibs.
Color photography evokes emotion that can bring a viewer into the scene. It can transport one to faraway places or back into the past.
The first color photograph, taken in 1861, was more of an exercise in science than art. Photographer Thomas Sutton and physicist James Clerk Maxwell used three separate exposures of a tartan ribbon — filtered through red, green and blue — and composited them into a single image, resulting in the first multicolor representation of an object.
Before this innovation, photographs were often tinted by hand. By the 1890s, color photography processes were introduced based on that 1860s experiment. In the early 20th century, autochromes brought color photography to a commercial audience.
Now color photography is widely available, with these historic photographs documenting moments and scenes that are still vivid generations later. Photographers in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered new perspectives in the evolving field of modern color photography with gripping portraiture, snow-capped landscapes, stunning architecture and lots more.
In the voluminous collection of photography on 1stDibs, find vibrant full-color images by Slim Aarons, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Stefanie Schneider, Steve McCurry and other artists. Bring visual interest to any corner of your home with color photography — introduce a salon-style gallery hang or another arrangement that best fits your space.