Pierre Boudet was born in 1915 in Caulnes in northwestern France, where he lived his youth. His parents were shoemakers and did not want him to venture into the Fine Arts world. However, young Pierre, being attracted by drawing, he enrolled to an Industrial Design School in Paris in 1968. And following his passion, he kept drawing for pleasure, while attending an art drawing school after classes in the evening. Adamant about learning, Pierre Boudet began painting in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, where he met Henri Le Sidaner, Pierre Montezin, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Lobre, Delaporte, and Henri Martin. He was a pupil and friend of Jean-Gabriel Domergue. Boudet mainly painted landscapes, boats, shores, and city views, notably of the Normandy coast, but also of places he visited on his travels, particularly Venice. 

He exhibited from 1945 at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants and the Salon d'Hiver, from 1950 at the Salon Violet, and occasionally at the Salon d'Art Libre from around 1960. His work was also featured in a Biennale exhibition of French painters that toured Buenos Aires, Chicago, New York, Washington, and Montreal in 1968. He also held solo exhibitions in Tokyo and Brussels in 1969-1970, in Paris in 1970, 1972, 1975, 1978, and 1985, and in London in 1972. A retrospective of his work was held at the Palais des Congrès, Versailles, in 1982. He exhibited regularly at the Wally Findlay gallery in New York and was awarded the Tossa de Mar Grand Prix and the Governor of Gerona Grand Prix (1964). Boudet died in 2010, leaving a legacy of outstanding pieces executed with a very fast gesture exemplary of his works.