The Beasts of the Sea

Gleaming Cream
Gleaming Bright and polished - high-key, often warm, suggesting reflective or luminous surfaces.
Cream Warm white - slightly yellowed, rich, the color of heavy dairy.
The Beasts of the Sea by Henri Matisse

Color Palette

✦ Edit in generator

Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
75.3
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
19.5
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
4.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#BBBAA8 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 94°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 75.3
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 19.5
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 75.3 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Beasts of the Sea" (1950) reads as a lit, mid-saturation warm palette built around Cream and Warm Grey. One color carries 46% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #2F649D pulls the eye.

Example use cases

Build a palette inspired by The Beasts of the Sea
Open in generator with 10 colors pre-loaded

I Love This!

Use This Palette
Copy, export, or download for your project
Copy:
Download:
Share:

Artworks with a similar color profile

Nearest neighbours by brightness, saturation, warmth and hue across the full corpus.

More by Henri Matisse

More from Abstract Expressionism

← Browse all artworks