Laszlo Barta - Paintings (1902 - 1961)

Laszlo BARTHA 1902-1961
Hungarian painter-engraver-sculptor-mosaist who passed away at the age of 59, he is one of the best artists of his generation
Came to Paris in 1920, he settled in St Tropez from the 1930s. Travels to North Africa, Italy, stays in Corsica
He rubs shoulders with artists such as Picasso-Gleizes-Dufy-Matisse-Signac. etc...
With an expressionist tendency, he oriented himself towards Fauvism pushing the limits of a modernism going as far as abstraction....
He illustrated many books,
worked with Albert GLEIZES.
An artist full of talents to rediscover
His works are included in major international collections.
Laszlo BARTA born in 1902 died too early at the age of 59 in 1961. Laszlo Barta arrived in Paris in the 1920s joining in Montmarte and Montparnasse the Fauve painters such as Matisse, Dufy, Gleizes, among others with whom he will befriend Evolving from a Fauve Expressionist style through Cubism and joining at the end of his short life the Abstraction. He will even study the mosaic in Ravenna. He will illustrate many luxury books. He will make an act of bravery and resistance in Corsica during the 2nd world war. After having married a Toulonnaise, they will settle in Saint Tropez. Their house will be an important artistic meeting place. An exhibition has just been held in Saint Tropez bringing together the most important painters of this city in the 1950s