Daniel Couture [Roses on a Red Background] Oil painting No. 10, 2008 [Framed]

French art critic Jean Roger Valier 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 sensibility and experience. 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, becoming a popular artist in France and the United States from the 1970s. After 1990, he lived in his father's hometown in the south of France, continuing to paint works filled with happiness using bright colors under the bright light of the south of France. In Japan, solo exhibitions and Japan tours 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. Painting production also stopped.