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

  

Art Deco Engraving of a Woman by Laszlo Barta, Erotic Nude Portrait Etching. 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, with whom he formed friendships. Evolving from a Fauvist Expressionist style to Cubism and eventually Abstract art towards the end of his short life.

He even studied mosaic in Ravenna. He showed courage 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, and others.