Daniel Couture [Notre Dame and the Seine in Paris] Oil painting No. 10, 2011 [Framed]

Jean-Roger Valliere, a French art critic, wrote that Daniel Couture'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, he graduated from the elite commercial design school École des Arts Appliqués. While working as a designer, he continued to paint, becoming a popular artist in France and America starting in the 1970s. From 1990 onwards, he lived in his father's hometown in the South of France, continuing to create works full of happiness with bright colors under the bright light of the South of France. In Japan, solo exhibitions were held at famous department stores such as Sapporo Mitsukoshi, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, and Kobe Daimaru starting in 2004, but in 2012, due to years of eye strain, he became unable to distinguish colors. Painting production also stopped.