Daniel Couture [Small Mediterranean Port] Oil painting No. 8, 2010 [Framed]

French art critic Jean-Roger Valliere wrote that his paintings are not merely beautiful in their harmony of colors, but are also vibrant, natural depictions, literary works born from his sensibility and experience. Born in Paris in 1930, he graduated 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 the United States from the 1970s. After 1990, he lived in his father's hometown in the south of France, where he continued to paint 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 overworking his eyes, he could no longer distinguish colors. He stopped painting.