Riders on the Beach I

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany · 66 x 76 cm

Gleaming Apricot
Gleaming Bright and polished - high-key, often warm, suggesting reflective or luminous surfaces.
Apricot Soft warm orange - peach-adjacent, the color of ripe stone fruit.
Riders on the Beach I by Paul Gauguin

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
78.1
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
23.2
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
6.8
cool
Dominant Hue
#C9C19B yellow

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 99°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 78.1
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 23.2
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 78.1 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Riders on the Beach I" (1902) reads as a lit, rich-saturation warm palette built around Amber and Green. Color weight is spread without a single dominant note. A low-prevalence accent at #618A93 pulls the eye.

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