Béla BIRKAS (1929-1973). Portrait study. Sanguine on tracing paper taped at the top to paper, signed upper right (small stain, tears). Height : 47.5 cm - Width : 60 cm Also included: Portrait of a man. Charcoal on paper pasted at the corners on a cardboard sheet, signed upper right (folds in one corner). Height 56 cm - Width 44 cm Provenance: Artist's studio Note: Béla Birkàs moved to the United States for academic training on a scholarship to Kent State University in Ohio, where he won a drawing prize in 1957. A student at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, he continued his figurative career until the late '50s. It is to this period that we can attribute the production of most of his charcoals and sanguines on paper.