Anatola Soungouroff, painter with Russian origins, born in Reval (Tallinn, Estonia) the 1911-03-11 and died 1982-09-01 in Pierrefeu-du-Var (France). In the mid-1930s, the artist moved to France, where he soon became well known for his portraits of handsome young men, in particular the inhabitants of Paris and environs of Cannes (South France). In fact, Soungouroff was known predominantly as a gay artist, who unabashedly dealt with themes and images relating to gay life and culture. He was the painter of faces of beautiful boys, and was haunted by a particular type with the same full lips, the same baggy eyes that seem progressively to better and more profoundly reveal a secret. As he was telling himself: "My sailors, my fishermen, my gypsies, my legionnaires, my St. Sebastians..., are as if absent and distant, but they are beautiful". His early career from 1942 to 1960 was very successful. In this early period of his career, he exhibits at the Berhein gallery, rue de la Boétie, in Paris. Then, he leaves for Cannes and, for many years, exhibits at the Gallery 20. He became friends with many prominent writers and artists, including Jean Cocteau, Christian Berard, and Roger Peyrefitte. He died at the Cote d’Azur (South France) in 1982.