A delicate, virtuoso line drawing of an area of natural beauty in the South of France, the region of the Bages lake, by Roger Grillon (1881-1938).Born in Poitiers, Grillon studied at the initially at the Academy of Fine Arts in his home town and from 1900, at the �cole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, in the studio of Fernand Cormon.However, he would soon tire of the Academy''s conservative approach, and instead choose to study at independent academies, spending time with Matisse and Albert Marquet.Similarly, while he initially exhibited at the very traditional Salon des Artistes Fran�ais, he soon came to prefer showing his work at the Salon des Ind�pendants and the Salon d''Automne. In 1926, Grillon had a one man show with Berthe Weill, the pioneering Paris gallerist who had provided Amedeo Modigliani with the only solo exhibition in his lifetime, and whose artists under contract included Raoul Dufy, Andr� Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Diego Rivera, Georges Braque, Kees van Dongen and Maurice Utrillo.A retrospective of the Grillon''s work was held at the Petit Palais in Paris in 1939.Roger Grillon moved from Paris to the South of France, first to C�ret, then to Saint Paul de Vence, Prades and Lagrasse. The drawing presented here is situated ''Etang de Bages'' on the verso. The lake of Bages, just South of Narbonne, is not far from Lagrasse, so it is likely that the artist was living there at the time.Measuring 25 x 35 cm, the drawing is signed and dated (19)34 at the lower left. The overall size in its original frame is 38 x 48 cm.Works by Roger Grillon can be found in the museums of Algiers/Morocco, Angers, Albi, Carcassonne, C�ret, Fontenay-le-Comte, La Rochelle, Grenoble, Troyes, as well as at the Mus�e du Luxembourg and the Mus�e National d''''Art Moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou) in Paris.Nous parlons fran�ais, und wir sprechen auch Deutsch! Paintings may be viewed in Norwich and in Paris, as well as in London and Cambridge by appointme...