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Still life of geranium plant, fruit, water pitcher, and two cats.

Still Life with Geranium

Henri Matisse · 1906

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Palette

Spruce
 27% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.0:1
Taupe
 22% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.8:1
Ash
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.6:1
Blue-grey
 18% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.6:1
Graphite
 7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1
Terracotta
 4% of the image
Red · 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

Details

Artist
Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954
Date
1906
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
100.3 × 81.5 cm (39 1/2 × 32 1/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
20th century
Themes
Flowers · Still life
Main colour
Green · lightness 52, colourfulness 12

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

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