Auguste Herbin Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Auguste Herbin is strongly light-biased - shadow is suggested rather than declared. The palette achieves thermal balance - reds and blues, ochres and greens, each holding the other in check. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The dominant colour, #D8C2AD, takes 25.0% of the total area, establishing the overall mood before any other hue is introduced. The most saturated colour, #BA9948, is reserved to 3.3% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range of 36 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. This is palette 2 of Auguste Herbin's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.