Daniel Couture [Tropical Garden] Oil painting No. 6, 2009 [Framed]

Daniel Couture's paintings are not merely beautiful for their harmony of colors. 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 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 Southern France, where he continued to create works overflowing with happiness in bright colors under the brilliant light of the region. 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. However, in 2012, due to years of eye strain, he lost the ability to distinguish colors, and his painting production came to a halt.