Pink Roses

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, US · 80 x 70.8 cm

Brooding Schist
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Schist Layered dark gray - the color of metamorphic schist rock, cool and mineral.
Pink Roses by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
39.8
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
22.7
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
7.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#665B5F gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 7°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 39.8
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 22.7
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 39.8 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Pink Roses" (1918) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation balanced palette built around Blue and Red. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #A68B3B pulls the eye.

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