ANTINOUS THE GAY GOD

RARE JEAN BOULLET "ANTINOÜS"

PORTFOLIO GOES FOR $271 ON EBAY

A SUPERB portfolio of male erotic drawings entitled "ANTINOÜS" by Jean Boullet has sold on eBay for a whopping $271 -- proving once again the selling power of the anything to do with the Beauteous Boy.

Boullet was a gay French artist who illustrated a number of texts during the 1940s and 50s.

"ANTINOÜS" is a collection of 33 explicit homoerotic drawings laid into wrappers, one of 467 copies printed.

Inspired by Jean Cocteau, Boullet became known in France as "the painter of masculine beauty”, illustrating texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Asso and poems of Villon and Verlaine.

Fundamentally libertarian, anti-clerical and anti-establishment driven in his pursuit of the weird and taboo, Jean Boullet was also passionate about sexology, magic, demonology, and gay mythology.

Boullet was found hanging from a tree in Algeria in 1970, exact details surrounding his death remain unclear to this day.