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Chinese red

#AA381E

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Chinese red (#AA381E) is a deep warm shade that appears across 19 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Sonia Delaunay, Joaquin Torres Garcia, and Edgar Degas and the abstract tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Camel (#C19A6B), Smoky black (#100C08), and Metallic Sunburst (#9C7C38). The combination forms an earthy, lived-in 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

The Swan (No. 17) palette card
The Swan (No. 17)
Hilma af Klint · 1915
Seated Woman palette card
Seated Woman
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1895
Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Pink Statuette palette card
Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Pink Statuette
Henri Matisse · 1910
Dans les Folies Bergères palette card
Dans les Folies Bergères
Kees van Dongen · 1914
Pegasus and the Hydra palette card
Pegasus and the Hydra
Odilon Redon · 1907
Self portrait with palette palette card
Self portrait with palette
Paul Gauguin · 1893

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Chinese red

6 palettes where Chinese red appears prominently — one per artist.

symbolic painting Palette 25 - Muted Rust

symbolic painting

33.7% Chinese red

Sonia Delaunay Palette 5 - Muted Rust

Sonia Delaunay

23.6% Chinese red

Joaquin Torres Garcia Palette 3 - Shadowed Caramel

Joaquin Torres Garcia

23.1% Chinese red

Neoplasticism Palette 11 - Shadowed Caramel

Neoplasticism

21.8% Chinese red

Edgar Degas Palette 22 - Shadowed Rust

Edgar Degas

21.2% Chinese red

Filipp Malyavin Palette 5 - Shadowed Rust

Filipp Malyavin

20.6% Chinese red

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