Art Deco Engraving Woman Laszlo Barta Etching Unsigned 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 became friends. Evolving from a Fauvist Expressionist style to Cubism, he ultimately embraced Abstraction at 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, etc.