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

  

Art Deco Engraving Woman Laszlo Barta Erotic Nude Portrait 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 a Fauvist Expressionist style through Cubism and eventually embracing Abstraction at the end of his short life. He even studied mosaic in Ravenna. He showed bravery 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 house became an important meeting place for artists. The New York gallery of Julien LEVY permanently exhibited the works of this artist alongside Braque, Picasso, etc.