Daniel Couture [Port of Mitelini on the Aegean Sea] Oil painting No. 10, 2007 [Framed]

Daniel Couture's paintings are not merely beautiful as a harmony of colors. Jean-Roger Valliere, a French art critic, wrote that they are vibrant, natural depictions and also literary works born from his sensibility and experience. Born in Paris in 1930, he graduated from École des Arts Appliqués, an elite school for commercial design. While working as a designer, he continued to paint, 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, where he continued to create works filled with a sense of happiness using bright colors under the brilliant 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 became unable to distinguish colors, and painting production ceased.