Daniel Couture [Lily Bouquet] Oil painting No. 6, 2011 [Framed]

The paintings of Daniel Couteur are not merely beautiful as a harmony of colors. They are vivid, natural depictions, and also literary works born from his sensibilities and experiences, 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 the South of France, where he continued to create works filled with a sense of happiness, using bright colors under the bright light of Southern France. In Japan, solo exhibitions and visiting 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 overusing his eyes, he became unable to distinguish colors, and painting production stopped.