Daniel Couture [Gentle Coquelicot] Oil painting No. 8, 2008 [Framed]

Daniel Couture's paintings are more than just beautiful harmonies of color. They are vibrant, natural depictions, and literary works born from his sensibility and experience, wrote French art critic Jean-Roger Valere. 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, and became a popular artist in France and the United States from the 1970s. After 1990, he lived in Southern France, his father's hometown, and continued to create works full of happiness with bright colors under the bright light of Southern France. In Japan, solo exhibitions and touring 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 stopped.