Daniel Couture [Midsummer Landscape] Oil painting No. 6, 2007 [Framed]

French art critic Jean-Roger Valere wrote that Daniel Cuture's paintings are not merely beautiful as a harmony of colors; they are lively, natural depictions, and also literary works born from his sensibility and experience. Born in Paris in 1930, after graduating from the elite commercial design school École des Arts Appliqués, he continued to paint while working as a designer, becoming a popular artist in France and the United States from the 1970s. After 1990, he lived in his father's hometown in southern France, continuing to create works brimming with a sense of happiness, using bright colors under the bright light of southern France. In Japan, solo 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 could no longer distinguish colors, and painting production ceased.