Early to Mid 20th Century Decorative Arts Auction
Thursday, 5 - Thursday, 12 October 2023
Framed Slim Aarons print titled “Poolside Gossip”
Current Bid $800 (25 bids, reserve met)
This lot is now closed 12 Oct 8:52 PM (NZST)
Buyer premium and GST is additional to your bid.
All bids are subject to our buyer terms and conditions
Lot Details
Framed Slim Aarons print titled “Poolside Gossip” A nice example with colours still bright. This appears to be an early print in its original frame with a Lower Hutt framers label. Set behind non reflective glass. Measuring 575mm by 450mm Poolside Gossip has ingrained itself into popular culture, becoming an everlasting symbol of style and modernism. This artwork features actress Lita Baron approaching Nelda Links (right, in yellow) and her friend, Helen Dzo Dzo (left) Palm Springs, January 22nd 1970. 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. Slim was raised in New York and New Hampshire and began his photography career while in the Army and before long was appointed the official photographer of the United States Military Academy at West Point. When war broke out, he was sent as a combat photographer for Yank magazine and saw action from North Africa to the Middle East to Europe, witnessing the fall of Tobruk and the liberation of Rome, and he received a Purple Heart.
