Still life with Bananas

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain · 81.3 x 64.8 cm

Brooding Schist
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Schist Layered dark gray - the color of metamorphic schist rock, cool and mineral.
Still life with Bananas by Raoul Dufy

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
38.9
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
23.5
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-2.9
cool
Dominant Hue
#505F52 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 132°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 38.9
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 23.5
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 38.9 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Still life with Bananas" (1909) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation cool palette built around Cool Grey and Sage. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #C0B33F pulls the eye.

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