Art Deco Engraving Woman Laszlo Barta Erotic Nude Etching Bust. Laszlo Barta was a Hungarian painter 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, and Gleizes, among others, with whom he became friends. Evolving from an Expressionist Fauvist style through Cubism, he ultimately embraced Abstraction towards the end of his short life. He even studied mosaic 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 continuously exhibited the works of this artist alongside those of Braque, Picasso, and others.