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Period: 1950s
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, wife of senator Leverett Saltonstall in Palm Beach, USA, circa 1958
12 x 12" inches /...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vuccino And Rava 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vuccino And Rava 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat, on th...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
We Know Our Place 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
We Know Our Place 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A Dalmatian dog lies at the feet of Mr and Mrs John M Seabrook as they pose with a pony and trap in the garden of their home, the...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stunning Elizabeth Taylor
(Limited Edition Oversize silver gelatine print)
Located in London, GB
'Stunning Elizabeth Taylor'
Portrait of the actress Elizabeth Taylor, 1953.
As the title suggests; a simply stunning close up image of the iconic movie star, fixing the camera with...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Horse Trainer - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Horse Trainer is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, plac...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jackie Swings Caroline, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Jackie Swings Caroline -- Jackie swings Caroline in the shallows at Hyannis Port in 1959. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order i...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Giclée
C. Z. Guest
Palm Beach SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest'
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Italian Hats by Hulton Archive
Located in London, GB
"Italian Hats" by Hulton Archive
Models wearing a collection of Italian designed hats for winter 1956/7 and spring 1957, at the fifth Men's Fashion Festival, San Remo, Italy.
Unfra...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
C. Z. Guest
Palm Beach SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest'
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Hotel Sports - Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 150 only).
1958: Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
France
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
6...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Tennis In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marilyn Getting Ready To Go Out
(Limited Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Marilyn Getting Ready To Go Out' by Ed Feingersh
Actress Marilyn Monroe prepares to go out to the play ‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’ by applying make-up and pe...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
- Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
1954 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Hepburn And Friends 1953 Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
On the left film star Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) talks with Mrs Grover Magnin (centre) and another guest at a party in San Francisco, 1953.
The beautiful and fashionable movie star and style icon dressed in her eponymous look; all in black with elegant white gloves joins Mrs Grover Magnin who wears an all white long gown...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Venice Gondolas
, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gondolas moored in Venice, 1957. In the background is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, on San Giorgio Maggiore island.
Captured with the exquisite clarity and charm that epitomiz...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marlon Brando
Vivien Leigh Smoking On-Set
Located in London, GB
'Marlon Brando & Vivien Leigh Smoking On-Set'
Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh smoking cigarettes on the set of 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' 1951....
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Overall with Paintings (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #24, Monogrammed)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Mardikes
Overall with Paintings (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #24)
Year: 1956, 2021
Pigment Ink on Archival Paper Photograph
Size: 8.5x12 in
Paper Size: 14x11 in
Edition: 1
Monog...
Category
Naturalistic 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$1,898 Sale Price
50% Off
Queen Elizabeth with Princess Anne - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth with Princess Anne - Vintage press realized in the 1950s.
London.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
American Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen Elizabeth Wears Mineral
s Helmet - Vintage Photograph 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth wears mineral's helmet is a vintage photograph, an original black and white photograph realized by Associated Press News photo.
The description of the image on the le...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Snorkelling In The Shallows, Malta, 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 group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta.
This is an estate stamped and h...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Ski Instructors Only 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ski Instructors Only
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked ‘Ski Instructors Only’ in New Hampshire, 1955.
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm
Estate Stamped Collect...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Deena
s back - Willy Ronis, 20th Century, French Humanist Photography
By Willy Ronis
Located in Paris, FR
One of the most famous members of the Humanist photography in France.
Signed lower right by the artist.
Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Hamptons Tennis Club 1955 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
The Hamptons 1955
by Toni Frissell
Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
A scene at a tennis club in The Hamptons USA 1955.
30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size
Archival...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Landscape (probably Castel of Rheinfels) - Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape (probably Castello di Rheinfels, in Sankt Goar) is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Lake Tahoe
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe
Young women holidaying by Lake Tahoe, circa 1959
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Pho...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
1954 Official Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Christmas Swim'
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floating baubles and a decorated Christmas tree, Hollywood, California, 1954. Two ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Julie London
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel, circa 1957.
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Coll...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane
1955 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The swimming pool and jetty at the Villa d'Este Hotel, Lake Como, Italy, June 1983.
Slim Aarons Chro...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
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 ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Nice Pool
1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool'
1955. American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the oc...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Getty Christmas, 1979 - Midcentury Modern Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1979, Ann and Gordon Getty and two of their four sons, Andrew and Billy, at home for Christmas, San Francisco.
Slim Aarons
Getty Christmas
1979 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamp...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Mid Century Portrait of a Ballerina - Hand Painted Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming hand painted photograph, portrait of a young ballerina as Tinker Bell by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Circa 1957.
Signed "Studio d'Art Los Altos...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Old Days - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
CZ
s Dogs
1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'CZ's Dogs'
Premium Rates Apply. circa 1955: Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 - 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) with her dogs in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Vil...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Man Ray
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Man Ray
American surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray (1890 – 1976) with some examples of his work at his Left Bank studio in Paris, April 1956
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beverly Hills Pool Party 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Pool Party 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A party by James Pendleton’s pool in Beverly Hills, California, 1952. Pendleton’s house was later bought by Hollywood dire...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
C. Z. Guest
1955 Palm Beach Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest' Palm Beach 1955
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her o...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Lake Tahoe Trip
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lake Tahoe Trip'
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
A fabulous scene picturing four young woman canoeing and pedalling on...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
C. Z. Guest With Her Great Dane 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
C. Z. Guest With Her Great Dane 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
American socialite C.Z. Guest (Mrs Winston F.C. Guest) (1920 – 2003) with a large Great Dane dog, at her Grecian te...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
C.Z. Guest 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
C.Z. Guest 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 – 2003) with a poodle and a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Vil...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
CZ’s Dogs 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
CZ’s Dogs 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 – 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) with her dogs in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Vill...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size
Estate...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tennis In San Diego
California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In San Diego' California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October 1956.
The elegant pair dressed in tennis whites, save for the striped shirt of the young lady, enjoy a game of tennis, in the heat of the Californian sunshine...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Carmen Sevilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spanish actress and singer Carmen Sevilla. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Carmen Sevilla
Chromogenic Lambda print
1957, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Com...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Tennis In San Diego
California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In San Diego'
A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October 1956.
The elegant pair dressed in tennis whites, save for the striped shirt of the young lady, enjoy a game of tennis, in the heat of the Californian sunshine...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
La Canzone Del Mare
1958 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Canzone del Mare in Capri, Italy, July 1958.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limit...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
George Platt Lynes Vintage 1949 Photograph #6 of dancer Francisco Moncion
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes Photograph #6 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949.
George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition.
This photograph is #6 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection.
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian.
Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...
Category
Post-War 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lake Tahoe Trip 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Trip 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size
Estate...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marina Piccola 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection E...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fan Mail, Beverly Hills, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out h...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and Kim Wadsworth at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California.
This is an estate ...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mini Car Mini Skirt 1966 Brigitte Bardot Giant Oversize by Michael Webb
By Michael Webb
Located in London, GB
"Mini Car Mini Skirt" 1966
by Michael Webb
Brigitte Bardot during a break from filming, 'Two Weeks in September' in Whitehall, 1960's Swinging London. Leaning against a mini she is ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
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...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Marlboroughs Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Marlboroughs
1957: John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 – 1972) and his wife Mary relax on a bench in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, the fam...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
"Earle and Carolyn Brown at the Stevenson
s in Brewster" Cy Twombly
By Cy Twombly
Located in New York, NY
Cy Twombly
Earle and Carolyn Brown at the Stevenson's in Brewster, 1955
Identified and inscribed on the reverse by the sitter Carolyn Brown
Photograph on paper
8 x 8 inches
Provenance
Gift of the artist
Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York, 2025.
Cy Twombly gained fame for his art that combined cultural, historical, and poetic elements—particularly those from classical antiquity—with abstract shapes and his distinctive script. Born Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr. on April 25, 1928, in Lexington, Virginia, he began his artistic journey under the guidance of Pierre Daura and Marion Junkin at Washington and Lee University. This initial training was complemented by his formative experiences at the Arts Students League of New York and Black Mountain College, where he established enduring friendships with influential figures like Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham.
A pivotal moment for Twombly was his 1952 trip to Italy and North Africa with Rauschenberg, funded by a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This journey allowed Twombly to engage deeply with the rich cultural history that would inform his future artistic endeavors, leading to the creation of significant early pieces.
Twombly made his way back to Italy in 1957 and 1958, during which he presented his first solo exhibition in Italy at Galleria La Tartaruga, owned by Plinio De Martiis. In 1959, he married Luisa Tatiana...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
