Daniel Couture [Bouquet and fruit in blue] Oil painting No. 10, 2007 [Framed]

French art critic Jean-Roger Valière wrote that Daniel Cuture's paintings are not merely beautiful as a harmony of colors. They are vivid, natural depictions, and also literary works born from his sensibilities and experiences. Born in Paris in 1930, after graduating from the École des Arts Appliqués, an elite commercial design school, he continued to paint even while working as a designer, becoming a popular artist in France and America from the 1970s. After 1990, he lived in his father's hometown in southern France, where he continued to create works overflowing with happiness in bright colors under the bright southern French light. In Japan, solo exhibitions and visiting exhibitions were held at famous department stores such as Sapporo Mitsukoshi, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, and Kobe Daimaru from 2004 onwards, but in 2012, due to years of eye strain, he lost the ability to distinguish colors. Painting production also stopped.