Auguste Herbin Palette 5

Palette Analysis

Auguste Herbin keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. The most saturated colour, #A89034, is reserved to 5.8% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. Value range is moderate at 37 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 5 of Auguste Herbin's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.