Daniel Couture [The Rite of Spring] Oil painting No. 8, 2006 [Framed]

Daniel Couture's paintings are not merely beautiful in their harmony of colors. They are vibrant, natural depictions, and 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 design school École des Arts Appliqués, he continued to paint 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 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 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 eye strain, he became unable to distinguish colors, and painting production also stopped.