Eugène Baboulène was born Eugène Louis Baboulène on August 18, 1905 in Toulon, where he died on July 15, 1994, and is known as a French figurative painter and lithographer.

After the Toulon School of Fine Arts, which he attended and where his first masters were Edmond Barbaroux and Laurent Mattio, he followed Pierre Laurent's courses in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, while being enrolled at the National School of Decorative Arts.

Despite the meetings of André Derain, Albert Marquet, Moïse Kisling and Othon Friesz "who all warmly encouraged him", he did not get used to Parisian life: he returned to Toulon in 1931 and lived off his work as a decorator. He worked in the most famous brothels in Toulon as w...