A work made of watercolor, with black fabricated chalk, pen and brown ink (originally purple) and touches of brush and black ink on heavily textured ivory wove paper.

Pape moe

Paul Gauguin · 1893/94

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Palette

Pale stone
57% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.0:1

Warm grey
19% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.8:1

Chalk
14% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 18.7:1

Taupe
6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1

Slate
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1

Blue-grey
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1

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: 1893/94
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Watercolor, with black fabricated chalk, pen and brown ink (originally purple) and touches of brush and black ink on heavily textured ivory wove paper
Size: 35.4 × 25.5 cm (13 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Place: France
Period: 19th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 77, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne. 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

Pape moe

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