Art Deco Female Gravure Erotic Nude Portrait by Laszlo Barta, 1940s-1950s

  
Gravure Art Deco 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 in Montmartre and Montparnasse, such as Matisse, Dufy, Gleizes, among others, with whom he formed friendships. Evolving from an Expressionist Fauvist style to Cubism and eventually embracing Abstraction towards the end of his short life, he even studied mosaic in Ravenna. He displayed 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 house became an important artistic meeting place. The New York gallery of Julien LEVY permanently exhibited the works of this artist alongside Braque, Picasso, etc.