Béla BIRKAS (1929-1973). Set of ten nude studies, seven signed and one dated 1957. Charcoal and red chalk on tracing paper and paper (traces of tape, stains, tears, folds). Height 36 to 60.5 cm - Width: 28.5 to 48 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 1950s. It is to this period that we can attribute the production of most of his charcoals and sanguines on paper.