Taperaa Mahana

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia · 73 x 97 cm

Dusky Gamboge
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Gamboge Deep golden yellow - a traditional warm pigment, rich amber-gold.
Taperaa Mahana by Paul Gauguin

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
48.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
48.7
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
28.2
cool
Dominant Hue
#916E2B orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 81°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 48.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 48.7
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 48.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Taperaa Mahana" (1892) reads as a shadowed, vivid-saturation warm palette built around Yellow and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #5D4569 pulls the eye.

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