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A work made of watercolor, with pen and black ink, graphite, and touches of brown crayon on tan wove paper (pieced), laid down on tan wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper.

Caryatid: Rose and Blue

Amedeo Modigliani · 1912–14

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Palette

Biscuit
 64% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.6:1
Ivory
 22% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.5:1
Prussian blue
 4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 8.4:1
Navy
 4% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.9:1
Blue-grey
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.5:1
Warm grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1

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
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian, 1884-1920
Date
1912–14
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor, with pen and black ink, graphite, and touches of brown crayon on tan wove paper (pieced), laid down on tan wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Size
Primary support overall: 82.1 × 28.9 cm (32 3/8 × 11 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 84.1 × 31.2 cm (33 1/8 × 12 5/16 in.); Tertiary support: 90 × 36.7 cm (35 7/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Place
Italy
Period
20th century
Themes
Flowers
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 73, colourfulness 22

Art Institute of Chicago, Amy McCormick Memorial Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1920: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1991. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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