Art Deco Engraving Woman Laszlo Barta Erotic Nude Portrait Etching 1940s 50s

  
Gravure Art Déco Woman Laszlo Barta Erotic Nude Etching Bust. Laszlo Barta is a painter of Hungarian origin who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1926 to 1933.

He traveled to Paris in the 1920s. Joining the Fauvist painters such as Matisse, Dufy, and Gleizes in Montmartre and Montparnasse, he formed friendships with them. Evolving from an Expressionist Fauvist style to Cubism and, at the end of his short life, embracing Abstraction. He even studied mosaic in Ravenna. He demonstrated bravery and resistance in Corsica during World War II.

After marrying a woman from Toulon, they settled in Saint Tropez, where this large painting was created. Their home became an important meeting place for artists. The New York gallery of Julien LEVY permanently exhibited the works of this artist alongside Braque, Picasso, and others.