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 Fauve painters such as Matisse, Dufy and Gleizes in Montmartre and Montparnasse. , among others with whom he will befriend Evolving from a Fauve Expressionist style through Cubism and joining Abstraction at the end of his short life. He will even study mosaics in Ravenna. He will act of bravery and resistance in Corsica during the 2nd World War. After marrying a Toulonnaise, they will settle in Saint Tropez, where this large painting is made. Their house will be an important artistic meeting place. The New York gallery of Julien LEVY permanently exhibited the works of this artist alongside Braque, Picasso, etc...