Basket of Apples

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US · 62 x 79 cm

Lustrous Sage
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Sage Muted gray-green - the color of dried sage leaf, low-chroma and herbal.
Basket of Apples by Paul Cezanne

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
56.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
22.9
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
12.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#968567 orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 82°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 56.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 22.9
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 56.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Basket of Apples" (1893) reads as a mid, mid-saturation warm palette built around Sage and Amber. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #A13515 pulls the eye.

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