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Poolside Style, 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Limited Edition C-Type Print
Poolside Style, 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Limited Edition C-Type Print

Poolside Style, 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Limited Edition C-Type Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

A variant image from the Poolside series by Slim Aarons, 'Poolside Style' features an array of subjects, all guests at Kaufmann House, the Palm Springs architect-designed mansion own...

Category

20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

A Poolside Story Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
A Poolside Story Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

A Poolside Story Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

A Poolside Story Composite contact sheet of the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs 1970. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Prin...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Slim Aarons, Poolside Party, (Kaufmann Desert Hous)
Slim Aarons, Poolside Party, (Kaufmann Desert Hous)

Slim Aarons, Poolside Party, (Kaufmann Desert Hous)

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Slim Aarons Poolside Party, (Kaufmann Desert House), 1970. (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity A poolside party at...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

A Poolside Story 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A Poolside Story 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

A Poolside Story 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

A Poolside Story 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Composite contact sheet of the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs 1970. 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Coll...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

A Poolside Story 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A Poolside Story 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

A Poolside Story 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

A Poolside Story 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Composite contact sheet of the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs 1970. 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Coll...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Poolside Ladies at Kaufman Desert House, 1970
Poolside Ladies at Kaufman Desert House, 1970

Poolside Ladies at Kaufman Desert House, 1970

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Poolside Ladies at Kaufman Desert House, 1970
Poolside Ladies at Kaufman Desert House, 1970

Poolside Ladies at Kaufman Desert House, 1970

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Desert House Party, 1970, Palm Springs, Midcentury Modern
Desert House Party, 1970, Palm Springs, Midcentury Modern

Desert House Party, 1970, Palm Springs, Midcentury Modern

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons, Desert House in Palm Springs (Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons, Desert House in Palm Springs (Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons, Desert House in Palm Springs (Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Desert House in Palm Springs, 1970 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dea...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons, Desert House in Palm Springs (Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons, Desert House in Palm Springs (Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons, Desert House in Palm Springs (Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Desert House in Palm Springs, 1970 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dea...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons, Desert House in Palm Springs (Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons, Desert House in Palm Springs (Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Desert House in Palm Springs, 1970 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dea...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons, Desert House in Palm Springs (Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons, Desert House in Palm Springs (Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Desert House in Palm Springs, 1970 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dea...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Desert House Party, 1970, Slim Aarons Midcentury Modern Estate Edition Print
Desert House Party, 1970, Slim Aarons Midcentury Modern Estate Edition Print

Desert House Party, 1970, Slim Aarons Midcentury Modern Estate Edition Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography
NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography

NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography
NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography

NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons 'At the Linsk House' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons 'At the Linsk House' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons 'At the Linsk House' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

January 1970: Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 194...

Category

1970s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons 'At the Linsk House' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons 'At the Linsk House' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons 'At the Linsk House' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

January 1970: Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 194...

Category

1970s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

'The Prairie School Collection' exhibition poster Milwaukee Art Museum
'The Prairie School Collection' exhibition poster Milwaukee Art Museum

'The Prairie School Collection' exhibition poster Milwaukee Art Museum

By Frank Lloyd Wright

Located in Milwaukee, WI

Through the Taliesin Fellowship, Wright created masterpieces such as Fallingwater (the Kaufmann House) in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, and the SC Johnson and Son Wax Company Administratio...

Category

1980s American Modern More Prints

Materials

Paper, Offset

Poolside Gaze by Slim Aarons - estate stamped limited edition print

Poolside Gaze by Slim Aarons - estate stamped limited edition print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Austin, TX

Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Lita Baron (in white sunhat) at the Kaufmann Desert H...

Category

Late 20th Century Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print

Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Poolside Pairs by Slim Aarons Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Kaufmann Desert House i...

Category

1970s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print

Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Poolside Pairs by Slim Aarons Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Kaufmann Desert House in...

Category

1970s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print

Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Poolside Pairs by Slim Aarons Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Kaufmann Desert House i...

Category

1970s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Cortina D'Ampezzo, Ski Lift, 1960
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Ski Lift, 1960

Cortina D'Ampezzo, Ski Lift, 1960

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Eden-Roc Pool, 1976
Eden-Roc Pool, 1976

Eden-Roc Pool, 1976

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Zermatt Skiing, 1968
Zermatt Skiing, 1968

Zermatt Skiing, 1968

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

The Fontainebleau Hotel Pool, Miami Beach, 1955
The Fontainebleau Hotel Pool, Miami Beach, 1955

The Fontainebleau Hotel Pool, Miami Beach, 1955

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Yacht Holiday by Slim Aarons, Estate Signed, 20x30"
Yacht Holiday by Slim Aarons, Estate Signed, 20x30"

Yacht Holiday by Slim Aarons, Estate Signed, 20x30"

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons 'Backgammon Players'
Slim Aarons 'Backgammon Players'

Slim Aarons 'Backgammon Players'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing Waiters, 1955
Skiing Waiters, 1955

Skiing Waiters, 1955

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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 pho...

Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

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Kaufmann House For Sale on 1stDibs

Find the exact kaufmann house you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. If you’re looking for a kaufmann house from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a kaufmann house to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of gray, black, purple and more. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in digital print, lambda print and laser print can add an especially memorable touch. If space is limited, you can find a small kaufmann house measuring 10 high and 12 wide, while our inventory also includes works up to 72 across to better suit those in the market for a large kaufmann house.

How Much is a Kaufmann House?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a kaufmann house in our inventory may begin at $1,320 and can go as high as $6,100, while the average can fetch as much as $3,350.

Slim Aarons for sale on 1stDibs

American photographer Slim Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach, as well as other luxurious settings around the globe.

Committed to eschewing makeup and artificial lighting, Aarons created images that are at once candid and polished, combining the relaxed posture of his subjects, who trusted him to document their lives, with the visual sharpness of a seasoned art director. Having gotten his start taking pictures for the U.S. military magazine Yank during World War II, he contributed over the course of his career to Life, Town and Country and Holiday magazines and published several books.

Aarons was born in Manhattan in 1916. He joined the army at 18, shooting military maneuvers at West Point before serving as a combat photographer, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. After the war, he moved to California and began snapping socialites and movie stars.

In the 1950s, Aarons opened a bureau for Life magazine in Rome, where he took pictures capturing the postwar scene. He was always able to win the trust of his elite subjects, who saw him as close to a peer, rather than a paparazzo.

In a 2002 interview with The Independent, Aarons remarked, ''I knew everyone. They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them.'' This access allowed him to document the rich and famous with their guard down, reading newspapers and magazines, talking on the phone, relaxing by the pool, and chatting with friends. The 1957 photograph The Kings of Hollywood, for example, which won him wide acclaim, shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing together as they celebrate New Year’s Eve.

Many of Aarons’s best-known images involve games and sports. In the 1972 Poolside Backgammon, two young women play the board game of the title against the backdrop of a majestic Acapulco estate. In 1958’s Cannes Watersports, a couple attempts to glide across the Golfe de la Napoule on Jet Skis, one expertly and one hanging on for dear life. And in Penthouse Pool, shot in Athens in 1961, a young woman wearing a yellow bathing cap smiles coyly at the camera, surrounded by friends and brightly colored seat cushions, with the Acropolis faintly visible in the background.

Among Aarons’s books are 1974’s A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life, and its 2003 sequel, Once Upon a Time. His final book, A Place in the Sun, was published in 2005, one year before his death.

Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.

A Close Look at Modern Art

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

Find a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right Color-photography for You

Color photography evokes emotion that can bring a viewer into the scene. It can transport one to faraway places or back into the past.

The first color photograph, taken in 1861, was more of an exercise in science than art. Photographer Thomas Sutton and physicist James Clerk Maxwell used three separate exposures of a tartan ribbon — filtered through red, green and blue — and composited them into a single image, resulting in the first multicolor representation of an object.

Before this innovation, photographs were often tinted by hand. By the 1890s, color photography processes were introduced based on that 1860s experiment. In the early 20th century, autochromes brought color photography to a commercial audience.

Now color photography is widely available, with these historic photographs documenting moments and scenes that are still vivid generations later. Photographers in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered new perspectives in the evolving field of modern color photography with gripping portraiture, snow-capped landscapes, stunning architecture and lots more.

In the voluminous collection of photography on 1stDibs, find vibrant full-color images by Slim Aarons, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Stefanie Schneider, Steve McCurry and other artists. Bring visual interest to any corner of your home with color photography — introduce a salon-style gallery hang or another arrangement that best fits your space.