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Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree)

Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree)

Paul Gauguin · 1892

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Palette

Iron
71% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.1:1

Silver
12% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.2:1

Bottle green
6% of the image
Green · text contrast 10.9:1

Blue-grey
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1

Bronze
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.3:1

Burnt sienna
1% of the image
Red · 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: 1892
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 68 × 90.7 cm (26 3/4 × 35 11/16 in.); Framed: 86.4 × 109.3 × 8.9 cm (34 × 43 × 3 1/2 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast · Trees and forests
Main colour: Grey · lightness 37, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Winterbotham 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