Young Man with a Flower Behind his Ear

Private Collection · 45.7 x 33.3 cm

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.
Young Man with a Flower Behind his Ear by Paul Gauguin

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
34.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
19.5
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
10.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#5F4C54 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 357°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 34.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 19.5
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 34.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Young Man with a Flower Behind his Ear" (1891) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation balanced palette built around Mauve and Amber. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #9D5928 pulls the eye.

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