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A work made of oil on linen canvas.

Polynesian Woman with Children

Paul Gauguin · 1901

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Palette

Prussian blue
 57% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.4:1
Raw umber
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1
Blue-grey
 15% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1
Warm grey
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1
Tan
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Sand
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.1:1

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
Date
1901
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on linen canvas
Size
97 × 74 cm (38 3/16 × 29 1/8 in.); Framed: 111.2 × 88.3 × 5.8 cm (43 3/4 × 34 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
Post-Impressionism · 20th century
Themes
Portraits · Cats · Mothers and children
Main colour
Black · lightness 34, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial 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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