InspiredBy
✨ Surprise ♡ 0
  1. Home
  2. Artists
  3. Henri Matisse
  4. Still Life with Oranges
Still Life with Oranges by Henri Matisse

Still Life with Oranges

Henri Matisse · 1912

View at Wikimedia Commons ↗

Palette

Aubergine
 41% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1
Pearl grey
 30% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.0:1
Poppy
 10% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.0:1
Indigo
 8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.9:1
Straw
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.1:1
Cobalt
 6% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.4:1

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
1869–1954
Date
1912
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
95 × 84.8 cm
Period
20th century
Themes
Still life
Main colour
Black · lightness 42, colourfulness 22

Louvre Museum; Musée Picasso. Commons file page. Public domain. United States: Dated 1912, before 1931 (Commons: PD-old-auto-expired, which states publication before 1931). Europe: Artist died 1954: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2025 (Commons: PD-Art|PD-old-auto-1923|deathyear=1954). Last checked 2026-10-31 (Commons file carries EU and US public-domain templates: yes). Image: a faithful photographic reproduction of a public-domain work, from Wikimedia Commons (PD-Art). Licence rules

Works that share this palette

Search by colour

The closest palettes among 5004 works, by average colour distance between the two palettes.

Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, Kazimir Malevich Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying Kazimir Malevich, 1915 Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red, Piet Mondrian Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red Piet Mondrian, 1935 Ephrata Visit the ancient cloisters of the early German pietists in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania / / Milhous, Katherine Milhous Ephrata Visit the ancient cloisters of the early German pietists in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania / / Milhous Katherine Milhous, [W.P.A., [between 1936 and 1941] Murnau – Landscape with Rainbow, Wassily Kandinsky Murnau – Landscape with Rainbow Wassily Kandinsky, 1909 People by the Blue Lake, August Macke People by the Blue Lake August Macke, 1913 The Lover Leaves Wistfully in the Morning after a Passionate Tryst: Lalit Ragini, from a Ragamala, Unknown artist The Lover Leaves Wistfully in the Morning after a Passionate Tryst: Lalit Ragini, from a Ragamala Unknown artist, c. 1600

More by Henri Matisse

Artist page and colour fingerprint
Standing Male Model, Henri Matisse Standing Male Model Henri Matisse, 1898-1901 The Conversation, Henri Matisse The Conversation Henri Matisse, 1900–1909 Portrait of Madame Matisse. The Green Stripe, Henri Matisse Portrait of Madame Matisse. The Green Stripe Henri Matisse, 1905 The Open Window, Henri Matisse The Open Window Henri Matisse, 1905 Still Life with Geranium, Henri Matisse Still Life with Geranium Henri Matisse, 1906 Street in Biskra, Algeria, Henri Matisse Street in Biskra, Algeria Henri Matisse, 1906

More like this by theme

All still life
Still Life, María Blanchard Still Life María Blanchard, c. 1916 Still Life with a Hyacinth, Fruit and a Blue Bowl, Karl Isakson Still Life with a Hyacinth, Fruit and a Blue Bowl Karl Isakson, 1911 Still Life, Ville Jais Nielsen Still Life Ville Jais Nielsen, 1913 Still Life with Begonia, Alexej von Jawlensky Still Life with Begonia Alexej von Jawlensky, 1911 Still Life with a Blue Bowl and Fruit, Karl Isakson Still Life with a Blue Bowl and Fruit Karl Isakson, 1910-1911 Still Life with Blue Fabric, Astrid Holm Still Life with Blue Fabric Astrid Holm, 1910-1915