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One box for everything: an artist (accents and spelling slips are fine: “kandinskij” finds Kandinsky), a title, a colour name (“cerulean”, “taupe”) or one or more hex codes. Several hex codes find the works whose palettes come closest to the whole set.

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Artists A–Z: every artist with six or more works has a page with a colour fingerprint.
Colours: 13 colour families, from blue to white & cream.
Themes, periods and movements and collections.

How the search works

Artists and titles. Every word you type must match the title or the artist. Accents and case are ignored, a word can be the start of a name (“kand”), and one or two wrong letters are forgiven, as are transliterations such as Wassily/Vasily and Kandinsky/Kandinskij.
Colour names. Any of the 174 colour names this site uses, from “cerulean” to “taupe”, and the plain family words (red, blue, gold…). A name searches for its colour, so “cerulean” finds palettes near #3f87b8.
Hex codes. One or more codes, with or without #, in 3- or 6-digit form, separated by spaces, commas or +. Each work gets a match score: every colour you give is paired with a different colour of the work's palette (the best pairing overall), scored by CIEDE2000 colour difference and by how much of the picture that colour covers, then averaged. The paired colours are outlined in each result.
Words and colours together (“monet #6f8fc8”) keep the works that match the words, closest palettes first.

Searches stay in the address bar (?q=), so you can bookmark and share them. Everything runs in your browser from a 538 KB index; nothing you type is sent anywhere. Method and tests.