Charles Antonio Roka was born in Hungary, then settled in Norway in 1937. Roka exhibited in Madrid, Barcelona and Lausanne. In 1982 illness stopped him from working.

Charles Roka (Károly Róka) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and after studying travel in Europe, the travels finally took him to Norway where he settled in 1937. Sometime in the early 1950s he made his first painting with a lightly dressed beauty as he had seen in Marseille a few years earlier.

The painting became a breakthrough for Roka as an artist and he continued to perform a number of paintings with the same theme. He has exhibited separately in Norway, Madrid, Barcelona and Lausanne, among other places. A memorial exhibition wi...