Daniel Couture [Cythera Island, Greece] Oil painting 50x50cm 2007 [Framed]

Daniel Couture's paintings are not merely beautiful in their harmony of colors. They are vibrant, natural depictions, and also literary works born from his sensibility and experience, as written by 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 even while working as a designer, and became a popular artist in France and America starting in the 1970s. After 1990, he lived in Southern France, his father's hometown, and continued to create works brimming with a sense of happiness, using bright colors under the bright light of Southern France. In Japan, solo exhibitions and visiting exhibitions were held at famous department stores such as Sapporo Mitsukoshi, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, and Kobe Daimaru since 2004, but in 2012, he lost the ability to distinguish colors due to years of eye strain. Painting production also stopped.