Still Life with Oysters

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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.
Still Life with Oysters by Henri Matisse

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
49.6
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
32.2
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
20.1
cool
Dominant Hue
#8F6E6B red

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 31°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 49.6
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 32.2
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 49.6 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Still Life with Oysters" (1940) reads as a mid, rich-saturation warm palette built around Blue and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #D2B53B pulls the eye.

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