Roland Oudot was born in Paris in 1897,

He studied and taught at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs.

He has exhibited in Paris, Lausanne, Venice and elsewhere. 

He initially started working in the field of screen-play together with Lon Bakst. 

His painted works were created during the period between the two World Wars. 

Oudot, along with Brianchon, is the most eminent figure of the group of Painters of the Poetic Reality (Les Peintres de la Realite Poetique) supporting the idea that concept that the "painting is not a laboratory experiment but an expression of experience.