Slim Aarons Top 150

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SLIM AARONS Photographer Slim Aarons (right) on board a yacht off Capri, Italy, September 1968. #2926933_8


Slim Aarons is internationally known for the positive portrayals he

place in the Pantheon of great postwar photographers.

gave to the people he photographed and was invited to high-society

It was Aarons who perfected, if not invented, the environmental

gatherings for exactly this reason. His subject matter covered

portrait while photographing the international elite in their exclusive

American and European society as well as nobility and both minor

playgrounds during the jet-set decades of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s,

and major stars of the day.

carrying out his self-described mission: to document “attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places.”

Slim Aarons died May 29th, 2006. He was 89 years old.

Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking

Getty Image Gallery holds the rights to Slim Aaron photography and

pictures of the rich and famous both before and after serving as a

in 2015 appointed Corporate Art to be its Australian and New Zealand

photographer for the US military magazine during World War II. His

representative and distributors.

ABOUT SLIM ARRONS

Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons established his

work has been included in the publications Town and Country, Holiday, Venture and LIFE.

Front Cover Image: EL VENERO El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971. #50945877

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MONOCLED MISS Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964. #3163556_8


OCEAN CLUB ON PARADISE ISLAND

KATHARINE HEPBURN

A cross-shaped ornamental pond and fountain at The Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, 1963. Huntington Hartford, paid $25,000,000 to have Paradise Island legally designated an ‘out island’, thus cutting his taxes. #76859792

1953: American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica. #3164477_8

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COTTON BAY

KEEP YOUR COOL

The Campbells’ pool at Cotton Bay, on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, November 1982. #95720181

Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco. #2695027


ARMANDOS BEACH CLUB Sunbathers at Armando’s Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975. #77444438

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POOL BY THE SEA Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1969. #73309131


ALL MINE

BETTINA GRAZIANI

Jim Kimberly and his wife, with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Worth. A Palm Beach socialite, he acts as Honorary Consul of Jordan. #2665700_8

Bettina Graziani relaxes in a hammock on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1964. #53438482

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HABITATION LECLERC

LA CONCHA BEACH CLUB

Bathers walking down steps to the swimming pool at Habitation Leclerc, Haiti, January 1975. They are followed by a waiter with cocktails. #77442611

Bathers at La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975. #77442143


BOULDEREIGN Carl Hovgard’s home, Bouldereign in Carefree, Arizona, built around the boulders on a desert site, January 1973. #605352633

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CAPOTE AT HOME Author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York. Original Publication: A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons #2694333_8


NEW YORK PICNIC

MAN’S WORK

A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline. #2716847_8

Working at his typewriter surrounded by ‘bunny girls’, publisher Hugh M Hefner at the Playboy Key Club in Chicago. He founded adult magazines, Playboy, VIp and Oui. #2716752

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DIXIELAND JAM

BOSTON STREET SCENE

November 1948: An impromptu concert in Rome with American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971), Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines (1905 - 1983) on piano and Jack Teagarden (1905 - 1964) on trombone playing with the ‘Rhythm Kings’. Hines and Teargarden play in Armstrong’s ‘All-Stars’ band. #3247523

A street in Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1955. #84990032


SOHOS WAITERS’ RACE Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters’ race from Soho Square to Greek Street, in London’s Soho, 1955. #109744461

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HOTEL DE PARIS IN MONACO The entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1977. #475373495


HARBOUR ISLAND

NO TRANSPORT PROBLEMS

Harbour Island in the Bahamas, 1970. #607001977

American model and actress, Mary Hartline (Mrs Woolworth Donahue), with car and bicycles on her motor yacht, ‘Hartline’, Palm Beach, 1982. #2695069

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MONACO GRAND PRIX

NASSAU SPEED WEEK

British racing driver James Hunt (1947 - 1993) on the grid at the Monaco Grand Prix, 22nd May 1977. #79750345

Competitors in an assortment of vehicles at the 1963 Nassau Speed Week. #52433014


MY TOY April 1982: Member of the ‘Jolly Club’, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Prince Di Montenevoso at Vallelonga with his red Lola racing car. He is Chief Test Driver for Firestone International. # 3163540

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CABOT FAMILY

TENNIS IN THE BAHAMAS

1960: Mrs Henry Cabot Jnr with her children (left to right) Henry Bromfield Cabot III, Camilla Foote Cabot and Andrew Hull Cabot, sitting on a car in the driveway of their home, ‘Rollingstones’, Manchester, New Hampshire.#3436607_8

Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the main group stand a second group of people talking. #114211819


POLO GEAR A group of polo players with their equipment, Argentina, December 1990. #113915396

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BUZIOS Holidaymakers in Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil, January 1983. #596331487


POOL AT AMALFI COAST

HOTEL DU CAP EDEN-ROC

A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984. #77442051

Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. #77440352

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CADILLAC CARS

JAZZ SCOOTER

A row of parked Cadillacs with bumpers gleaming in the sun. #2666267

Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) displays his musical appreciation of the ancient Colosseum in Rome. #2716596


DINNER JAZZ 1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome. #3248098_8

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MCMARTIN VILLA Guests around the pool at Elephant Walk, Duncan McMartin’s villa in Bermuda, September 1977. #95738182


MAZATLAN SEASIDE

SCONE MADAM?

Hoildaymakers at a seaside pool at Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984. #77443932

Afternoon tea round the pool on a cold day at the home of interior decorator James Pendleton in Beverly Hills. #3088770_8

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LUCKY LUCIANO

LUCKY LUCIANO

Sicilian-born American gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano (1897 - 1962) walking with friends in Lercara, Sicily. His criminal empire included narcotics-peddling, prostitution, extortion and running vice dens. Whilst in prison from 1936 to 1946 he founded the Crime Syndicate of Mafia families and reorganized crime. #2666383

Sicilian-born American gangster Charles Luciano (1897 - 1962) relaxes in exile from the FBI. His criminal empire included narcotics-peddling, prostitution, extortion and running vice dens. Whilst in prison from 1936 to 1946 he founded the Crime Syndicate of Mafia families and reorganized crime. #2716598


JAMES GALANOS American fashion designer James Galanos with supermodel Dovima (1927 - 1990) in his studio, 1960. #74110947

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POOL AT LAS BRISAS

UNDERWATER DRINK

Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. #77440433

A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. #76859752


COLOURFUL CREW

EXUMA HOLIDAY

A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970. #95738179

A yachting hoilday on Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1964. #84941427

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SAINT-TROPEZ BEACH The beach at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971. #102060802


POOLSIDE IN SOTOGRANDE

VOLLEYBALL IN SANTA BARBARA

On the grounds of a beautiful estate, bathers relax and frolic poolside. This photo for a framed print was taken in Sotogrande, Spain, August 1st, 1975. #95738211

A group of young people playing volleyball, Santa Barbara, California, July 1975. #120817206

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POOL IN PALM BEACH Bathers in and around the pool at Mrs. Murray Goodman’s house in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1985. #77442781_8

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AT THE VON PANTZS Bathers by the pool at El Rincon, the Marbella home of Baron and Baroness von Pantz, Spain, August 1967. #77442313

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ABACO ISLANDER

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

March 1986 - Author Chester Thompson at work in his conut grove on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas. His ancestor Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, founding Hope Town. #71109977

1959, Mrs. George ( Daphne) Cameron sit on a tiger pelt in the trophy room of Laddie Sanford’s Palm Beach house. #2716791


EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

CATHERINE WILKE

A man contemplates the sunbathers by a swimming pool in Capri, Italy, August 1974. #453081605

1980 – Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri. #2716606

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EDEN ROCK

CASA LAS ESTACAS

March 1973 – The mansion of Remy de Haenen on a peninsula in the bay of St. Jean at Eden Rock on the Caribbean island of St Barts (Saint-Barthelemy). #52235738

Gunzburg’s pool at the Casa Las Estacas, in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, April 1979. # 84106463


II CANILLE Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo overlooking the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980. Il Canille is the villa owned by Italian tailor and fashion designer Umberto Tirelli (1928-1992). #155762888

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EARL LEVY’S CASTLE Trident Castle, the home of Earl Levy in Port Antonio, Jamaica, March 1993. #84107580


NEO-CLASSICAL POOL

MEGACHESS

Mrs T. Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman’s parents in Palm Beach, Florida, 1985. #51428805

A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993. #84113314

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CAFE IN MONTE CARLO Diners on a cafe terrace in Monte Carlo, Monaco, August 1975. #77445996


CLIFFTOP POOL Guests around the clifftop pool at Warren Avis’ villa ‘La Barranca’, Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971. #77442113

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RHODE ISLAND SURFERS Surfers off Rhode Island, September 1965. #120817355


PETER VIERTEL

RHODE ISLAND SURFER

Author and screenwriter Peter Viertel (1920 – 2007) with his surfboard on the beach at Biarritz, France, 1960. #475374143

A surfer carrying his board at a Rhode Island beach, September 1965. #120817307

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SAINT-TROPEZ

MARINA PICCOLA

Holidaymakers lounging on the deck of their luxury yacht in Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971. #475373743

Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. #7744308


BERMUDA STREET SCENE

FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH

Bicycles, motorcycles, and cars on a street in Bermuda, June 1967. #554350999

Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. #113915620

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SAINT-TROPEZ Holidaymakers on the deck of yacht in Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971. #475371105


ZEPHYRIA I

HOTEL EXCELSIOR

Holidaymakers aboard the ‘Zephyria I’ in Monte Carlo, August 1970. #101949525

1957 – The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido. #53438142

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KAUFMANN DESERT HOUSE II Helen Dzo Dzo at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J.Kaufmann. #89441044


POOLSIDE GOSSIP A desert house in Palm Springs designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar Kaufman. Lita Baron approaches on the right Nelda Linsk, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk who is talking to a friend, Helen Dzo Dzo. #2668264

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DESERT HOUSE PARTY

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A Desert house in Palm Springs designed by Richard Neutra for Edgan Kaufman. Lita Baron approaches on the right Nelda Linsk, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk who is talking to a friend, Helen Dzo Dzo. #77442787


NELDA AND FRIENDS

DECK DWELLERS

Ladies by the pool at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. From right to left, former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), unknown, Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Lita Baron (in white sunhat). The Linsks are the current owners of the house. #605352637

General view looking down on sunbathers on the deck of a yacht, off the coast of the Bahamas, April 1967. The image has been taken from a vantage point on the mast of the yacht. #114211583

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MARBELLA CLUB

FLORIDA PALMS

The swimming pool of the Marbella Club in Andalucia looks out over the sea, 1976. #53403599

A view of palm trees at a beach resort in Boca Raton, Florida, April 1978. #113915532


POOLSIDE CHEZ HOLDER May 1970 – Guest by the pool at albin holder’s home in Palm Beach, Florida. #77442826

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HARBOUR AREA, PORTOFINO General view of the harbour area, crowded with small and large boats, in Portofino, Italy, 1977. #155761599


GIACOMO MONTEGAZZA

BARBADOS BLISS

Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983. # 50945878

April 1976 – Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados. #52200184

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PENTHOUSE POOL Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961. #77440243_8


SEA DRIVE Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Segrist and their family for a drive in an ‘Amphicar’ across the harbour at Nassau. #2716725_8

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POOLSIDE BACKGAMMON Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. #77443356

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HOTEL SPORTS

PORTO ERCOLE

1958: Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. #3436608_8

A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1973. #87922953

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TRANSPORT BUFFS

SCOTTI’S YACHT

A helicopter and two motor boats adorn the deck of a luxury yacht where Roy J Craven and Prince Pouilnac are chatting in Monte Carlo harbour. #2695020_8

Guests on board Italian Count Hannibal Scotti’s yacht, ‘Scotland Cay’, Monte Carlo harbour, Monaco, August 1981. #95738185


LEONARD DALSEMER Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974 #56013769_8

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PARK AVENUE

FOOD STALL

1953 – A view of neatly arranged office and apartment block along Park Avenue in New York City. #3245102

A fruit and vegetable stall in a back street, Italy, circa 1949. #120817343


PRIVATE TRANSPORT

CANNON DRIVE

Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car. The car is parked by a plane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service at Palm Beach, Florida. #2694536

1952: Cars driving along Cannon Drive, Beverly Hills, California. #3058125

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STAR IN TOWN

THE CARLTON HOTEL

Circa 1955: Film star Farleu Granger ( Farley Earlee II) outside the Plaza Hotel, New York. #3137797

A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955. #84989741_8


LAS VEGAS LUXURY

THANK YOU DARLING

Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. #84989747

circa 1960: Socialite Whitney Warren gets a chaste kiss from film star Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) during a party he gave for her in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of ‘Ondine’ in which she starred. #3138047

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SAILING DINGHY A boy and two girls lifting a sailing dinghy off its trailer, San Diego, California, October 1956. #120817062


JAMAICA SEA SAILING

SAILBOAT IN SAN DIEGO

1953 – Two men sailing their yacht ‘Eel II” in Jamaica. #3245100

Two women and a boy with a sailboat on a beach in San Diego California, October 1956. #120817126

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YACHTING TRIP August 1967 – Selvaggia Borromeo wade ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Coasta Smeralda in Sardinia. #56442297


VILLA NIRVANA

TROPICAL MUSTIQUE

Guest at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. #53397515

February 1980: Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. #3428554

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ISLAND LOOKOOUT May 1968: Nattily dressed, W Clifford Klenk with his telescope and his wife, Hope in their Hog island house. A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons. #3095102


GARDEN PARTY

THE FULLERS

1970: An elegant garden party in Miami, Florida. #3165254

May 1970 – Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190SL. #3239994

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JOHN RAWLINGS

BAHAMANIAN HOTEL

1950 – Fashion photographer John Rawlings ( 1912 – 1970 ) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica. #51246681

A hotel on the coast at Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas. #95738278


PORTO ERCOLE A jetty juts out from a rocky shoreline in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. #88004728

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ISLAND PARADISE August 1984 – Topless swimmer on a rocky promontory of the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. #3438891


SARDINIAN HOLIDAY

POOL AT LAKE TAHOE

Model Selvaggia Borromeo d’Adda in Costa Smeralda, Sardina, Italy, 1967. #53403798

Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. #77442754

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SNOWMASS PICNIC

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1967: A stand-up fondue picnic for skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado which has more than fifty miles of trails and snowfields. The village was opened in 1967. The ski picnic was organized by Holiday magazine, with the helicopter being used to bring up hot food. The guest list included Howard Head (1914 - 1991) of the Head Ski Company, president of IBM Thomas Watson Jr. (1914 - 1993) and his wife Olive (nee Cawley, 1918 - 2004), Norwegian Olympic skier, Stein Eriksen, and American restaurateur Armando Orsini (1923 - 2011). #2668255


GASTHOF POST POOL Guests lounging by the indoor swimming pool of the Gasthof Post in Lech, Austria, February 1979. #77442712

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VERBIER SKIERS

NEW ENGLAND SKIING

Skiers at Verbier, 1964. #52043588

Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955. #55896563


CORTINA D’AMPEZZO

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO

Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982. #74155625

Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962. #79466650

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SNOWMASS GATHERING Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. #114278166


Reference

Framed Size

A 10” x 12”

25.4 x 30.5cm

58 x 68cm

B 12” x 16”

30.5 x 40.6cm

61 x 71cm

C 16 x 20”

40.6 x 50.8cm

68 x 78cm

D 20” x 24”

50.8 x 76.2cm

78 x 89cm

E 20” x 30”

50.8 x 76.2cm

78 x 100cm

F 30” x 40”

76.2 x 101.6cm

100 x 125cm

G 40” x 60”

101.6 x 152.5

125 x 175cm

Square images are charged at the same rate as a rectangle image, eg. Penthouse Pool 125 x 125 cm framed is the same price as Poolside Gossip 175 x 125cm. This also applies to both framed and unframed prints and canvases. • G size is framed in white with perspex. • All framed canvas comes in a white reverse frame (floating frame).

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