Daniel Couture [Villa of Coquelicot] Oil painting No. 10, 2010 [Framed]

His paintings are not merely beautiful as a harmony of colors. Jean Roger Vallet, a French art critic, wrote that they are vibrant, natural depictions, and literary works born from his sensibility and experience. Born in Paris in 1930, he continued to paint even while working as a designer after graduating from the elite commercial design school École des Arts Appliqués, becoming a popular artist in France and the United States from the 1970s. After 1990, he lived in the south of France, his father's hometown, and continued to create works overflowing with happiness, using 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 became unable to distinguish colors, and painting production came to a halt.