Rene Couturier is a world renowned artist whose works display a master virtuosity. His talent encompasses the bold figurative lines of the “Jeune Painture” Movement, the power of an Abstract dimension, and a phenomenal color technique which is distinctly his own. Couturier’s super-imposed layers of sand and oil paint are blended on canvas by pallete knife. From this textured foundation his brilliant tones are brought forth with an astounding intensity. The resulting composition is a vigorous contrast of color on texture, texture on dimension, dimension on line.

Born in 1933 in Dieppe, Normandy, a coastal town in France, Rene Couturier began drawing before he could walk. His artistic ambitions withstood four adolescent years at a watc...