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Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso)

A work made of black fabricated chalk, selectively blended, with touches of brush and gray gouache, over traces of black fabricated chalk offset (recto); graphite (verso); on ivory wove paper (removed from a sketchbook).

Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso)

Paul Gauguin · 1891/93

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Palette

Pale stone
59% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.7:1

Putty
24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.5:1

Ash
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.8:1

Mushroom
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1

Stone
3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.4:1

Taupe
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.5:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Date: 1891/93
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Black fabricated chalk, selectively blended, with touches of brush and gray gouache, over traces of black fabricated chalk offset (recto); graphite (verso); on ivory wove paper (removed from a sketchbook)
Size: 17.8 × 27.3 cm (7 1/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Themes: Birds
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 77, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Samuel P. Avery Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules