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 as early as the 1920s, joining Fauvist painters such as Matisse, Dufy, Gleizes, among others, with whom he formed friendships in Montmartre and Montparnasse.
Evolving from a Fauvist Expressionist style, passing through Cubism, and ultimately embracing Abstraction towards 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 home became an important artistic meeting place. Julien LEVY's New York gallery permanently exhibited the works of this artist alongside Braque, Picasso, etc.