1950s Photography

This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Spanish artist Salvador Dali enjoys a cup of coffee on the terrace of the Ritz Hotel, Madri...

Hawaiian Scenes 1957 A couple aboard a yacht in Hawaii, USA, 1957 by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available ...

Wapping Group of Artists by the Thames - Mid 20th Century Oil by Donald Blake Frederick Donald Blake Born in Greenock, Scotland in 1908 and died in 1997. Blake's family moved to Lon...

Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (...

Ski Bus 1951 Skiers take a lift in a VW camper van bus, Klosters, Switzerland, 1951. by Toni Frissell 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed ...

Penthouse Pool, 1959 C print 20 x 16 inches Estate edition of 150 Dolores Guinness, 1965: Catching the sun's last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia. ...

Dinner Jazz 1949 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circa 1955. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...

Saint Anton Snow by Toni Frissell Snow begins to fall on an already snow covered mountain side with pine forest behind it. Saint Anton Austria 1955. Large 40 x 30" inches / 101 x ...

A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California. Estate stamped and hand numbere...

Cannes Watersports 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...

Vintage silver print Western Photography Guild studio stamp in purple ink, verso Stamped "Wrestling Poses" and numbered "Series 37 No. 5" in purpl...

Kennedy Holiday (1959) (Photo By Phillip Harrington) 21 August 1959. John F. Kennedy sailing on the Victura with Jackie and friends Additional ...

White Stoops, West 88th Street, NYC by Ruth Orkin is a black and white gelatin silver print of cars parked along the street, with a layer of snow covering the scene. Gelatin Silver ...

Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere at Mougins, near Cannes in France, 1957. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocra...

New England Skiing 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Two female skiers outside the Carroll Reed Ski Service Shop and Check Room in New Hampshire, 1955 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm...

Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955. New England Skiing Black and White Photography Slim Aa...

Cy Twombly (1928-2011) Virginia/ New York / Italy Image Size: 16 x 11 Visible inside matboard is 12 x 11 Frame Size: 21.5 x 19 Medium: Photograph Edition 1/12 Signed with the edition number "Black and White" 1954 This is an original. The same photo in the Twombly book is a dry point on cardboard but is unsigned by hand. Cy Twombly (1928-2011) Following is the obituary of the artist by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, July 5, 2011 Cy Twombly, whose spare, childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out of step with the movements of postwar American art even as he became one of the era's most important painters, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 83. His death was announced by the Gagosian Gallery, which represents his work. Mr. Twombly had battled cancer for several years. In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start. The curator Kirk Varnedoe, on the occasion of a 1994 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote that his work was "influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initiates of postwar art as well." The critic Robert Hughes called him "the Third Man, a shadowy figure, beside that vivid duumvirate of his friends Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg." Mr. Twombly's decision to settle permanently in southern Italy in 1957 as the art world shifted decisively in the other direction, from Europe to New York, was only the most symbolic of his idiosyncrasies. He avoided publicity throughout his life and mostly ignored his critics, who questioned constantly whether his work deserved a place at the forefront of 20th century abstraction, though he lived long enough to see it arrive there. It didn't help that his paintings, because of their surface complexity and whirlwinds of tiny detail — scratches, erasures, drips, penciled fragments of Italian and classical verse amid scrawled phalluses and buttocks — lost much of their power in reproduction. But Mr. Twombly, a tall, rangy Virginian who once practiced drawing in the dark to make his lines less purposeful, steadfastly followed his own program and looked to his own muses — often literary ones, like Catullus, Rumi, Pound and Rilke. He seemed to welcome the privacy that came with unpopularity. "I had my freedom and that was nice," he said in a rare interview, with Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate, before a 2008 survey of his career at the Tate Modern. The critical low point probably came after a widely panned 1964 exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. The artist and writer Donald Judd, who was hostile toward painting in general, was especially damning, calling the show a fiasco. "There are a few drips and splatters and an occasional pencil line," he wrote in a review. "There isn't anything to these paintings." But by the 1980s, with the rise of neo-Expressionism, a generation of younger artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat found inspiration in Mr. Twombly's skittery bathroom-graffiti scrawl. Coupled with rising interest in European artists whose work shared unexpected ground with Twombly's, like Joseph Beuys, the newfound attention brought him a kind of critical favor he had never enjoyed before. And by the next decade, he was highly sought after not only by European museums and collectors, who had discovered his work early on, but also by those back in his homeland who had not known what to make of him two decades before. In 1989, the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened permanent rooms dedicated to his monumental 10-painting cycle, Fifty Days at Iliam, based on Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad. (Mr. Twombly said that he purposely misspelled Ilium, a Latin name for Troy, with an "a," to refer to Achilles.) That same year, Mr. Twombly's work passed the million dollar mark at auction. In 1995, the Menil Collection in Houston opened a new gallery dedicated to his work, designed by Renzo Piano after a plan by Mr. Twombly himself. Despite this growing acceptance, Mr. Varnedoe still felt it necessary to include an essay in the Modern's newsletter at the time of the retrospective, titled "Your Kid Could Not Do This, and Other Reflections on Cy Twombly." In the only written statement Mr. Twombly ever made about his work, a short essay in an Italian art journal in 1957, he tried to make clear that his intentions were not subversive but elementally human. Each line he made, he said, was "the actual experience" of making the line, adding: "It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization." Years later, he described this more plainly. "It's more like I'm having an experience than making a picture," he said. The process stood in stark contrast to the detached, effete image that often clung to Mr. Twombly. After completing a work, in a kind of ecstatic state, it was as if the painting existed but he himself barely did anymore: "I usually have to go to bed for a couple of days," he said. Edwin Parker Twombly Jr., was born in Lexington, Va., on April 25, 1928, to parents who had moved to the South from New England. His father, a talented athlete who pitched a summer for the Chicago White Sox and went on to become a revered college swimming coach, was nicknamed Cy, after Cy Young, the Hall of Fame pitcher. The younger Mr. Twombly (pronounced TWAHM-blee) inherited the name, though he was much more bookish than athletic as a child, with stooped shoulders and a high ponderous forehead. He read avidly and, discovering his calling early, he worked from art kits he ordered from the Sears Roebuck catalog. As a teenager, he studied with the Spanish painter Pierre Daura, who had left Europe after the Spanish Civil War and settled in Lexington. Daura's wife, Louise Blair, studied cave paintings and may have sparked Mr. Twombly's early interest in Paleolithic art. In 1947 he attended the Boston Museum School, where German Expressionism was the rage, but Mr. Twombly gravitated to his own interests, like Dada and Kurt Schwitters and particularly to Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti, two important early influences. He moved back to Lexington in 1949 and studied art at Washington and Lee University, where his talent impressed teachers. By 1950, he was in New York, the recipient of a scholarship to the Art Students League. Later in his life, he cited visiting Willem de Kooning's studio and seeing an Arshile Gorky retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art as important moments in his young painting life. But he also came to New York at the heyday of the New York School and was exposed to the work of almost all its giants in the city's galleries. He turned down an offer for a solo show of his paintings at the Art Students League in 1950, saying that he felt it was too early for him. He met Rauschenberg, a fellow student at the league, during his second semester, and Rauschenberg later persuaded Mr. Twombly to enroll at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, which had become a crucible for the American avant-garde, with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Ray Johnson, Dorothea Rockburne and John Chamberlain among its faculty and students. Mr. Twombly, who studied with Ben Shahn, stayed at the college only briefly and was a bit of an outsider even then. As he told Mr. Serota: "I was always doing my own thing. I always wondered why there are books with photographs of all the artists of that period and I was only in one! I thought: 'Where was I?' " In the summer of 1952, after receiving a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Mr. Twombly traveled to Europe for the first time and met up with Rauschenberg. The two wandered through Italy, North Africa and Spain, an experience that later yielded some of the first paintings to be considered a part of Mr. Twombly's mature work. "Tiznit," made with white enamel house paint and pencil and crayon, with gouges and scratches in the surface, was named for a town in Morocco that he had visited, and the painting's primitivist shapes were inspired by tribal pieces he saw at the ethnographic museum in Rome, as well as by artists like Dubuffet, de Kooning and Franz Kline. The painting, along with another based on tribal motifs, was exhibited in 1953 at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery on West 58th Street along with monochromatic paintings by Rauschenberg. The show was generally savaged. (Early this year, the Museum of Modern Art acquired "Tiznit," along with another early work, which Mr. Twombly had kept in his personal collection.) Mr. Twombly was drafted and spent more than a year in the Army, where he was assigned to cryptography work in Washington. On weekends and leaves, he continued to paint and draw, sometimes at night with the lights out to try to lose techniques he had learned in art classes and to express himself more instinctively. After receiving a medical discharge and teaching for a time in Virginia, Mr. Twombly returned to New York and worked in a studio on William Street, near both Rauschenberg and Johns, who helped choose titles for his paintings during this period. Mr. Twombly tried without success for several months to get a grant to go back to Europe and in 1957, with Ward's help, he spent several months in Italy, where he met Tatiana Franchetti...

Available Sizes: 24" x 24" $7,000.00 Edition of 15 30" x 30" $8,000.00 Edition of 20 45" x 45" $12,000.00 Edition of 7 Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper. ...

Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floating baubles and a decorated Christmas tree, Hollywood, California, 1954. Two children play in the background. Slim Aarons Christmas Swim...

The Marlboroughs (1957) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 – 1972) and his wife Mary relax on...

'Pulitzer On The Beach' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Slim Aarons silver gel...

René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 1247, 1956 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Sheet 19.7 x 21.2 cm (7 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.) Unique Framed Signed an...

Signed in ink on recto; signed, titled dated in pencil on verso Image 13-3/4" x 9-1/4", Paper 16" x 12", Matted 20" x 16"

Waiting for Fidel Castro, 1959 by American photographer Burt Glinn is a series of (2) photos, each photo is 9.5" x 12” - they are gelatin silver RC press prints, authenticated by the...

This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire. This is an estate stam...

An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva resort and casino straddles the border between Nevada and California and the line on the bottom of the pool marks the state boundary. It was owned by Frank Sinatra from 1960 to 1968. Slim Aarons Swimmer and Sunbather Cal Neva Lodge, Lake Tahoe Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Printed Later Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 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 * Internal: Vintage Sport, Midcentury Modern, Vintage Lake Tahoe, Vintage Glamour, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Cal Neva Lodge, American Realist, Midcentury sport, Midcentury Glamour, California Nevada State Line, Midcentury Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Trip, Vintage Watersports...

René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 531, 1952 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Sheet 19.5 x 28.2 cm (7 5/8 x 11 1/8 in.) Unique Framed Signed an...

This silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount with BMFA 11 stamp, title and date in ink on the back of the mount. An inventory number in pencil on the back ...

Signed in ink on recto; Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Image: 7-3/4 x 12"; Paper: 10-3/4 x 13-3/4"; Mat 16 x 20"

Available Sizes: 24" x 20" $5,000.00 Edition of 15 30" x 24" $6,000.00 Edition of 20 45" x 45" $10,000.00 Edition of 7 Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper. ...

Ed. of 20, estate-stamped. Includes black frame. Milton H. Greene, famous for his fashion photography and celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood, met Marilyn Monroe on...

"Queen Of Soho" by Thurston Hopkins Model Andria Loran (right) greets a friend, 21st July 1956. Loran works in Soho, London as a model and has been voted 'Que...

Acapulco Rocks 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A view of a rocky outcrop on the coast at, Acapulco, Mexico, 1950. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...

Hildegard Knef – Film Still – Es geschehen noch Wunder, 1951 Vintage Print Photographer: Likely Richard Wesel Size: 15.2 x 19.3 cm Type: Original Vintage Silver Gelatin Print In thi...

Ed. of 20, estate-stamped. Unframed print. Milton H. Greene, famous for his fashion photography and celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood, met Marilyn Monroe on a pho...

Signed and dated in ink on recto; Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Image: 8 x 12-1/2"; Paper 10-3/4" x 13-3/4"; Mat 16 x 20"

1953: Red and white automobile lights on Park Avenue, New York at Christmas time. The rear and headlights at nighttime give the appearance of lights on a giant Christmas tree. A Wond...

Lake Tahoe Trip (1959) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959. Additional In...

Stamped with photographer's estate ink stamp, inscribed with title and numbered on reverse C-type print Available in two sizes: 20 x 16 inches, from an edition of 21 + 3 PPs 24 x 20...

A crowd is gathered outside the Bonwit Teller department store on Worth Avenue while a band plays opposite during the Palm Beach Easter Parade, Florida, 1955. Slim Aarons Palm Beac...

Signed in ink on recto; titled and dated in pencil on verso Gelatin Silver Print Paper Size: 16 x 12 inches; Image Size: 11 3/4 x 9 12

Kennedy And Friends (1953) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Senator John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963), Shirley Rogan Ellis and Betty LoSavio at Montego Bay Airport, Jama...

Jamaica Sailing by Toni Frissell Local sailboats on the turquoise waters of the sea in Jamaica. 1948 Large 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Archival pigment print unfra...

Klosters Scene 1954 Two skiers ski down a snow covered hill in Klosters Switzerland 1954 by Toni Frissell 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed...

'Snorkelling' 1954 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print 1954: Two young women going snorkeling. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print Printed Lat...

"Joan Crawford" by Thurston Hopkins American actress Joan Crawford (1906 - 1977) asks her assistant to bite off a loose thread from her dress at the Dorchester Hotel...

Belgian-born British actress Audrey Hepburn photographed wearing a Givenchy afternoon cocktail dress from the Spring/Summer 1955 collection. Photographed at ‘La Vigna’, Hepburn’s v...

Jamaica Sailing by Toni Frissell Local sailboats on the turquoise waters of the sea in Jamaica. 1948 Large oversize 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment prin...

Ed. of 20, estate-stamped. Includes black frame with white mat. Milton H. Greene, famous for his fashion photography and celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood, met Ma...

Acapulco Scene 1954 Limited Signature Stamped Edition by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available please enquire)...

Jamaica Parasol by Toni Frissell A family rests near a parasol on the beach near the turquoise waters of the sea in Jamaica. 1948 Large 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size ...

Hello There 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 – 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper s...

This is all about the work of George Douglas, a brilliant photographer of the mid 20th Century. In the 1940s, 50s and 60s he worked for leading magazines of the day, both in Britain...

Bond Girl to Be (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Sultry sex symbol, film star Ursula Andress takes a siesta in a hammock on a visit to Rome, circa 1955. Abo...

Montego Bikini 1946 Extra Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition by Toni Frissell Fashion model Natahli (Natalie) Nickerson Paine wearing a bikini, lying on a platform near wate...

Signed by Jesse Alexander in black ink on print margin Gelatin silver print Pape size: 16 x 20 in. Image size: 11 1/2 x 17 in. Jesse Alexander is considered one of the greatest race car photographers in history. His images of vintage...

Available Sizes: 23" x 19" $5,000.00 Edition of 15 27" x 22" $6,000.00 Edition of 20 45" x 45" $10,000.00 Edition of 7 Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper...

Image size is 15 x 19.5 inches. Printed in 1999. Larry Burrows Collection and copyright stamps on verso. Larry Burrows career as a LIFE Magazine photographer culminated in his renow...

This piece is an original photograph shot by Milton Greene circa 1950s. It depicts one of the most well known and influential musical artists of the 20th century, Frank Sinatra...

Lake Tahoe Couple (1959) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks t...