Slim Aarons (1916-2006)
Eye Of The Beholder, c. 1974
Chromogenic C-Print
12 × 10 in | 30.5 × 25.4 cm
Private collection
Welcoming summer can involve a variety of activities, from enjoying outdoor adventures and seasonal flavors to incorporating summer themes into your home and wardrobe. The transition to summer is a time of warmth, sunshine, and a sense of freedom, often associated with positive emotions like happiness and fun.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006), an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20th century. Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Richard Neutra's designed Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs. Granted exclusive access to the world's most elite gatherings, he wove tales of extravagance, often juxtaposed against mesmerizing modernist architecture.
His photography, reminiscent of the distinct styles of contemporaries like Horst P. Horst, Helmut Newton, and Bert Stern, has been showcased in esteemed institutions, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Palm Springs Art Museum, Getty Images Gallery, and IFAC Arts.
Slim Aarons primarily worked for society publications, capturing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." He photographed the rich and famous both before and after his tenure as a photographer for the US military magazine, Yank, during World War II. His work has been featured in publications like Town and Country, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum. Instead, he transitioned from black and white photography, immersing himself in a world of sun-drenched glamour and light-heartedness. His intimate portrayals of the elite and the jet set brim with the wit and charisma that granted Aarons unparalleled access to high society.
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Linder Sterling (B. 1954)
Untitled, c. 2012
Photo collage on found paper
30 x 22.4cm (11 5/8 x 8 5/8in).
Private collection
Estimated for £1,000 - £2,000 in June 2025
Linder Sterling (born 1954, Liverpool), commonly known as Linder, is a British artist known for her photography, radical feminist photomontage and confrontational performance art. She was also the former frontwoman of Manchester-based post-punk group Ludus. In 2017, Sterling was honoured with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award.
For her solo shows at the Hepworth Wakefield and Tate St Ives in 2013, Sterling collaborated with choreographer Kenneth Tindall of Northern Ballet for a performance piece, The Ultimate Form (2013).
Recent solo exhibitions include Nottingham Contemporary, Kestnergesellschaft, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, and Museum of Modern Art PS1, and Sterling's work has been included in group exhibitions at Tate Modern, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Tate Britain, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
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Jess Cochrane
Bathers Scene (Marrakech), 2024
Oil on canvas
23 3/5 × 29 1/2 × 4/5 in | 60 × 75 × 2 cm
Offered for sale for £1,500–£2,000 in Sep 2024
In paintings laden with thick, heavy brushstrokes, Jess Cochrane pays homage to the colors and compositions of Post-Impressionists such as Paul Cézanne, seamlessly blending 19th- and 20th-century painting styles with contemporary subject matter. Photography guides her practice, which draws on reference images of fleeting moments and popular aesthetic trends that she translates to canvas. In her works, Cochrane examines ideas of consumption, wherein perfectly ripe oranges, for example, serve as a symbol of overindulgence, reflecting the negative influences of social media and digital advertising. Other works include sunny poolside scenes of everyday moments with friends. Dressed in classic triangle bikinis and Matrix-style sunglasses, her painted subjects evoke nostalgia for the Y2K era. Cochrane studied graphic design at the University of Canberra before pursuing art at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions. More on Jess Cochrane
Andre Gittelson Gisson (New York, Connecticut, France, 1921 - 2003)
Bathing Nudes
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 inches / 20 x 25 cm
Private collection
Sold for Sold: $700 USD in Jun 2024
André Gisson's landscapes, beach scenes, and portraits were intended to create a reflective mood of serenity. The still-lifes show Japanese influence in his work, while the French influence is more pronounced in his landscapes, beach scenes and studies of the human figure. However, there is little question that the artist approached his subject matter with a singular gesture, and with the "romantic" history of his persona, Gisson has a strong following among collectors of his works. Paintings by Andre Gisson can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Triton Museum of Art, in North Carolina. Among his private collectors were President Lyndon B. Johnson and W. Somerset Maugham. More on this painting
André Gisson (1921 – July 28, 2003) was an American Impressionist painter. He graduated from the Pratt Institute in New York and was a Captain in the Army during World War II.
Gisson's birth name was Anders Gittelson. Raised in poverty, he went on to graduate with an Art degree from the Pratt Institute. Gisson found difficulty breaking into the art market with his Impressionist paintings as an American. He moved to France and legally changed his name to André Gisson. After serving as a Captain in the United States Army during World War II, he continued his travels and art studies throughout Europe and Asia. A prolific painter, Gisson created hundreds of paintings throughout his lifetime. His work is in the Triton Museum of Art, and among his private collectors were President Lyndon B. Johnson and W. Somerset Maugham.
Gisson lived and worked in Westport, Connecticut for the final twenty-five years of his life. He died in Atlanta, Georgia in 2003.
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Paul Gustav Fischer, 1860-1934
The Three Bathers
Oil on canvas
22 ¾ x 29 3/8 in. (57.8 x 74.6 cm.)
Private collection
Sold for USD 20,160 in May 2024
Although a pupil of the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts, Paul Fischer largely rejected the traditional teaching of his era. Instead, he followed in the footsteps of a group of younger artists including Krøyer, Locher and Tuxen, whose stylistic tendencies and subject matter were heavily influenced by their travels and studies in Paris in the late 1870s and 1880s and who subsequently heralded a new era in Danish art. Despite the immense influence of Parisian artistic trends at the end of the 19th century on the development of Danish art, Fischer’s paintings remain quintessentially Danish. Taking his inspiration largely from everyday scenes of daily life, his paintings display a vitality and a sense of immediacy in their subject matter and execution that many of his contemporaries were seeking abroad. His beach scenes in particular demonstrate the influence of the Skagen School, with the dynamism of the sea and sky as much the subject of the painting as his figures. More on this painting
Paul Gustav Fischer (22 July 1860 – 1 May 1934) was a Danish painter.
Paul Fischer was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He belonged to the fourth generation of a Jewish family which originally came from Poland. His father had started as a painter, but later succeeded in the business of manufacturing paints and lacquers.
His formal art education lasted only a short time in his mid teens when he spent two years at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. Fischer began to paint when he was still young, guided by his father. He worked from 1878-88 at the father's factory and exhibited regularly at Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 1884-1902.
It was thanks to a painting he had published in Ude og Hjemme that his reputation began to evolve as he came in contact with young Danish naturalists. His earlier paintings depict city life. After a stay in Paris from 1891–1895, his colours became richer and lighter. It was not long before Fischer gained fame as a painter of cities.
He benefited from contemporaries in Norway and Sweden, especially Carl Larsson. Around this time, he also painted bright, sunny bathing scenes, some with nude women, and developed an interest in posters. More on Paul Gustav Fischer
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