Anatol Bouchet was born in Marseille, France in 1930 and he was the son of a well known artist. He was an impressionist painter primarily known for his vivid paintings of Parisian cityscapes and street scenes, as well as landscapes and marine scenes of the French Riviera in the Mediterranean coast of southeastern France. After finishing his elementary education in Marseille, he traveled to Paris to study and quickly became involved in the art societies of Parisian painters and contemporary fellow artists. And influenced by many of his well known artist friends, he quickly developed a special talent creating a unique aesthetic for his artworks and soon he began exhibiting his paintings in and around Paris, which garnered a lot of attention from the public art scene, becoming a very popular painter of the Parisian style.