The Black Women

Brooding Basalt
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
The Black Women by Marianne von Werefkin

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
24.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
15.5
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-1.9
cool
Dominant Hue
#33394C blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 289°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 24.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 15.5
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 24.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Black Women" (1910) reads as a deep, mid-saturation cool palette built around Blue and Slate. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #A49065 pulls the eye.

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