Daniel Couture [Cat on the sofa] Oil painting No. 6, 2011 [Framed]

Daniel Couture's paintings are not merely beautiful in their harmony of colors; they are vibrant and natural depictions, 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, becoming a popular artist in France and America starting in the 1970s. After 1990, he lived in his father's hometown in the South of France, where he continued to create works brimming with happiness using bright colors under the vivid sunlight 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 starting in 2004, but in 2012, due to prolonged eye strain, he lost the ability to distinguish colors. Painting production was subsequently halted.