Apples

Henri Matisse · 1916

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Palette

Apricot
45% of the image
Orange · text contrast 6.9:1

Soot
31% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1

Chestnut
11% of the image
Red · text contrast 8.9:1

Pale gold
6% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 9.4:1

Madder
4% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.3:1

Stone
3% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.3:1

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

Details

Artist: Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954
Date: 1916
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 116.5 × 89.5 cm (45 7/8 × 35 3/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 20th century
Themes: Still life
Main colour: Orange · lightness 45, colourfulness 31

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx. 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