Daniel Couture [Bouquet with Calendula] Oil painting No. 8, 2011 [Framed]

Daniel Couture's paintings are more than just a beautiful harmony of colors. Jean-Roger Valière, a French art critic, writes that they are vivid, natural depictions and literary works born from his sensibilities and experiences. Born in Paris in 1930, after graduating from the École des Arts Appliqués, an elite commercial design school, he continued to paint even while working as a designer, becoming a popular artist in France and America from the 1970s. After 1990, he lived in his father's hometown in southern 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 artist 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 could no longer distinguish colors, and painting production also stopped.