René Sautin was born in 1881 in Monfort-sur-Risle on Normandy region at the northern France. He entered the Ecole Beaux Arts, Rouen, studying painting under P. Zacharie. Then in Paris Sautin studied at the Ferrier Studio, where he learned from Albert Lebourg, who was born in the same village. He entered Le Salon des Independants with Signac and Luce. He was married to Marthe in 1910 and they settled in Andelys in 1911, making friends with the Pissarro’s sons Lucien and Paul-Émile. He was also influenced by Signac, Luce, Derain, Guillaumin, Lebasque, Bigot, Ge-nez, who came back to Andelys to paint the Seine riverbanks.

Rene Sautin was essentially a landscape artist, and he was mostly known for his French townscape paintings. Around 1923 he left the impressionist style and started to explore fauvism. Sautin found an equilibrium even in the smallest of expressions, and from 1925 until the 1950s, his main focus remained in the feeling of totality of each of his landscape compositions, while presenting them in a personal manner. Sautin died in 1968 and through his works the viewer can experience the sentiment of those depicted times, with the use of strong brushwork that permeated a certain invocation to dominating his will with an intense sensitivity.