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Cadmium orange

#ED872D

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Cadmium orange (#ED872D) is a mid-tone warm shade that appears across 8 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Lyubov Popova, Carlo Carra, and Paul Ranson and the Romanticism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Canary (#FFFF99), Jonquil (#F4CA16), and Smoky black (#100C08). The combination forms a sun-bleached, daylight chord, built on closely related hues, reads as a unified warm palette, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Untitled palette card
Untitled
Marianne von Werefkin
Fire paternoster palette card
Fire paternoster
Nicholas Roerich · 1907
Reading Woman, Daydreaming palette card
Reading Woman, Daydreaming
Henri Matisse · 1921
Bouquet of anemones palette card
Bouquet of anemones
Odilon Redon
The guitar player palette card
The guitar player
Paul Gauguin · 1894
Clytemnestra palette card
Clytemnestra
Pierre-Narcisse Guerin · 1817

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Cadmium orange

6 palettes where Cadmium orange appears prominently — one per artist.

Lyubov Popova Palette 5 - Muted Rust

Lyubov Popova

22.9% Cadmium orange

Carlo Carra Palette 3 - Pale Vermillion

Carlo Carra

22.3% Cadmium orange

Paul Ranson Palette 1 - Pale Vermillion

Paul Ranson

21.9% Cadmium orange

Edward Burne-Jones Palette 7 - Muted Vermillion

Edward Burne-Jones

21.4% Cadmium orange

Japonism Palette 5 - Luminous Aureolin

Japonism

19.0% Cadmium orange

Synthetic Cubism Palette 1 - Pale Vermillion

Synthetic Cubism

18.4% Cadmium orange

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