The Artist's Wife

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, US · 100.3 x 64.5 cm

Dusky Laterite
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Laterite Deep iron-red - the color of tropical laterite soil, oxidized and earthy.
The Artist's Wife by Amedeo Modigliani

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
43.8
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
44.4
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
38.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#945933 orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 59°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 43.8
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 44.4
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 43.8 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Artist's Wife" (1918) reads as a shadowed, vivid-saturation warm palette built around Red and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #FBEA3F pulls the eye.

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