Art Deco Engraving Woman Laszlo Barta Erotic Portrait 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 in Montmartre and Montparnasse the Fauve painters such as Matisse, Dufy, Gleizes, among others with whom he would become friends. Evolving from a Fauve Expressionist style through Cubism and joining Abstraction at the end of his short life. He even studied mosaics in Ravenna. He would act bravely and resist in Corsica during the 2nd World War. After marrying a woman from Toulon, they settled in Saint Tropez, where this large painting was made. Their house will be an important artistic meeting place. Julien LEVY's New York gallery permanently exhibited the works of this artist alongside Braque, Picasso, etc. Type: Engraving Genre: Art Deco Characteristics: Signed Theme: Portrait, Self-portrait