Houses at Murnau

Wassily Kandinsky · 1909

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Charcoal
52% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.7:1

Ochre
19% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Old gold
14% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.8:1

Chartreuse
8% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.2:1

Brick
5% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.0:1

Blue-grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

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

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Artist: Wassily Kandinsky
Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944
Date: 1909
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on cardboard
Size: 49 × 64 cm (19 1/4 × 25 in.)
Place: Germany
Period: 20th century
Main colour: Black · lightness 39, colourfulness 29

Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Katharine Kuh. 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

Houses at Murnau

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