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A work made of wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory china paper.

Maruru (Offerings of Gratitude), from the Noa Noa Suite

Paul Gauguin · 1893–94, printed and published 1921

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Palette

Pale stone
 34% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.5:1
Smoke
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.2:1
Charcoal
 17% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.2:1
Iron
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.1:1
Chalk
 9% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.2:1
Ash
 5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1

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
printed by Pola Gauguin (Danish, born France, 1883-1961)
Date
1893–94, printed and published 1921
Type
Print
Medium
Wood-block print in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper
Size
205 × 356 mm (image); 272 × 422 mm (sheet) (sheet)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 57, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection. 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

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