May 11
Le Marin (c.1940's/50's) painted by Jean Boullet Jean Boullet (December 12, 1921-November 2, 1970) is a French painter, draftsman, illustrator, film critic and writer. Openly homosexual, Boullet proclaimed himself a "painter of male beauty", he produced drawings or paintings of a homoerotic aesthetic somewhat inspired by that of Jean Cocteau. Boullet associated with Le Tout-Paris, which is a French expression referring to the stylish and affluent elite of Paris, who frequent fashionable events and places, and establish trends in upper-class culture. It is equivalent to high society or the jet set elsewhere.
