Born in Poitiers in 1881, Roger Grillon attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he met the Fauvist Henri Matisse and Albert Marquet. Still, he was most attracted to Impressionism. From about 1904 he painted landscapes, portraits, nudes and women in their boudoir or in the garden in a freely interpreted impressionism. They are the clearest, most atmospheric canvases. Sometimes the painter used the stipple technique to represent the reflection of the sunlight.