Antonio de La Gándara Palette 3

Palette Analysis

Antonio de La Gándara occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The dominant colour, #302C25, takes 25.1% of the total area, establishing the overall mood before any other hue is introduced. Only 3.0% is devoted to #DFD7C1, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. The full value range is 63 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 3 of Antonio de La Gándara's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.