A work made of wood-block print in yellow ocher ink with gray-blue watercolor and touches of red watercolor on cream wove notebook paper ruled in blue.

Maoris and Animals

Paul Gauguin · 1896/97

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Palette

Chalk
27% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.7:1

Parchment
26% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.3:1

Amber
21% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1

Biscuit
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.3:1

Apricot
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.5:1

Honey
8% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.3:1

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: Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Date: 1896/97
Type: Print
Medium: Wood-block print in yellow ocher ink with gray-blue watercolor and touches of red watercolor on cream wove notebook paper ruled in blue
Size: Image: 9.1 × 10.6 cm (3 5/8 × 4 3/16 in.); Sheet: 10.6 × 13.3 cm (4 3/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 82, colourfulness 27

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Print and Drawing Club. 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

Maoris and Animals

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