Portrait Of A Woman With A Spit By Laszlo Barta

Beautiful and large oil on canvas by the Hungarian painter Laszlo Barta. The canvas is in very good condition, signed upper right. Shipping in addition dimensions with the frame: : 107/85 cm1902 - 1961 Born in 1902 in Nagykoros (Hungary) and died in 1961 in Saint - Tropez. Laszlo Barta arrived in Paris in the 1920s. Between 1926 and 1933, he studied at the Fine Arts School in Budapest while making study trips to Rome and France. From 1927, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, until 1938. Joining in Montmartre and Montparnasse the Fauve painters such as Matisse, Dufy, Gleizes, among others with whom he would become friends. He also exhibited landscapes and a portrait at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1927 and 1928. In 1944, he had a solo exhibition in Paris. In the 1930s, he had chosen to take up residence in Saint-Tropez, Their house will be an important artistic meeting place. During the war was put under house arrest in Corsica, there he will perform acts of bravery and resistance. In 1949, he learned from the craftsmen of Ravenna the technique of mosaic, which became one of his specialties. In 1952, he created If all the guys in the world could join hands, mosaic for Chateau-Thierry, others later for administrative buildings, in 1956 two large mosaics for the Museum of Salisbury (Southern Rhodesia). In 1954, an exhibition of his achievements in this technique was held in Paris. In his Hungarian youth, he painted still lifes, views of Lake Balaton and figurative compositions. After settling in Saint-Tropez, he painted many landscapes in the Var, making the Mediterranean, as Paul Vialar says: "the true homeland of his vision and his feelings". Since the 1950s, his formal repertoire has evolved to become abstract while retaining its qualities of transcription of light and its chromatic richness. Julien LEVY's New York gallery permanently exhibited the works of this artist alongside Braque, Picasso, etc.