Art Deco Woman Engraving Laszlo Barta Erotic Nude Portrait Etching 1940 1950

  
Art Deco Engraving Woman Laszlo Barta Erotic Nude Etching Bust Portrait. Laszlo Barta was 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 Fauvist painters in Montmartre and Montparnasse such as Matisse, Dufy, Gleizes, among others, with whom he formed friendships. Evolving from a Fauvist Expressionist style through Cubism and ultimately embracing Abstraction towards the end of his short life. He even studied mosaic art in Ravenna. He showed 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 artistic meeting place.

The New York gallery of Julien LEVY permanently exhibited the works of this artist alongside Braque, Picasso, etc.