Perrier initially studied fashion and costume design but thanks to his school-friend, the critic Mathias Morhardt, he met the circle of Swiss artists in Paris, Ferdinand Hodler, Cuno Amiet, Carlos Schwabe and Félix Vallotton and decided to follow his true passion for painting. A gifted portraitist, it was landscape painting which would occupy him for most of his life and he returned incessantly to favourite sites, the Salève, the Mont Blanc from Praz de Lys in upper Savoy, Lake Geneva and the Grammont. However rather than painting from nature like his Genevan predecessors, Perrier prefers to take notes on colour and mood while walking and once back in the studio he transposes his impressions into dreamy and fluid compositions in which he was aiming to create a sublime and cosmic vision of landscape. He painted with short brushrokes, initially influenced by the pointillist style of George Seurat, but moving closer to the divisionism of Giovanni Segantini. From 1910 his style becomes increasingly abstract and paired down and the paint layer ever thinner.

The current work shows us a vision of the Mont Blanc as it rises majestically above the rose-coloured atmosphere. The zones of brilliant contrasting colour are covered by a network of white lines which delineate the mountain relief. Everything superfluous has been extracted and the landscape is condensed to its essence.