Art Deco Engraving by Laszlo Barta: Portrait of a Woman with a Dove Bird Etching Bust

  

Please note signs of humidity, see photo. Laszlo Barta is a Hungarian painter who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1926 to 1933. He traveled to Paris as early as the 1920s, joining the Fauvist painters in Montmarte and Montparnasse, such as Matisse, Dufy, and Gleizes, among others, with whom he formed friendships. Evolving from a Fauvist Expressionist style through Cubism and ultimately embracing Abstraction at the end of his short life.

He even studied mosaic in Ravenna. He showed courage and resistance in Corsica during the Second World War. After marrying a woman from Toulon, they settled in Saint Tropez, where this large painting was created.

Their home became an important artistic meeting place. The New York gallery of Julien LEVY permanently exhibited the works of this artist alongside Braque, Picasso, and others.