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Vibrantly colored geometric painting of a central white and blue waterfall with birds visible through it. A stylized red jungle cat and black wild boar drink at bottom right. Red water wheel at left, angular blue and white cityscape top at left, tree top at right.

The Bewitched Mill

Franz Marc · 1913

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Palette

Charcoal
 43% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.4:1
Pearl grey
 41% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.2:1
Poppy
 8% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.8:1
Chestnut
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.2:1
Old gold
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.1:1
Caramel
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.5:1

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
Franz Marc
German, 1880–1916
Date
1913
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
Without frame: 130.2 × 90.8 cm (51 5/16 × 35 3/4 in.); 130.2 × 91.2 cm (51 1/4 × 35 7/8 in.)
Place
Germany
Period
20th century
Themes
Rivers and lakes · Birds · Cities and streets
Main colour
Black · lightness 51, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial 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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