Moraccan Garden

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US · 116 x 81 cm

Lustrous Slate
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Slate Blue-gray stone - the color of roofing slate, cool and slightly blue.
Moraccan Garden by Henri Matisse

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
52.4
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
29.7
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
4.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#7F7E61 yellow

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 104°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 52.4
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 29.7
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 52.4 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Moraccan Garden" (1912) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation balanced palette built around Amber and Cool Grey. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #8C2611 pulls the eye.

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