Art Deco Engraving Woman Laszlo Barta Etching Unframed 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 the Fauvist painters such as Matisse, Dufy, and Gleizes in Montmartre and Montparnasse, with whom he would form friendships. Evolving from a Fauvist Expressionist style through Cubism and eventually reaching Abstraction at the end of his short life. He even studied mosaics 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 exhibited the works of this artist alongside Braque, Picasso, and others.