Art Deco Engraving Woman Laszlo Barta Etching Unauthenticated 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, befriending Fauvist painters such as Matisse, Dufy, and Gleizes in Montmartre and Montparnasse. Evolving from a Fauvist Expressionist style to Cubism, he eventually 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 regularly exhibited the works of this artist alongside those of Braque, Picasso, etc.