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Fire engine red

#CE2029

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Fire engine red (#CE2029) is a mid-tone warm shade that appears across 3 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Leopoldo Metlicovitz, and Raphael Kirchner and the Art Nouveau tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Magnolia (#F2E8D7), Cream (#FFFDD0), and Burlywood (#DEB887). The combination forms a sun-bleached, daylight chord, reads as a unified warm palette, with a sharp light/dark contrast that lets the lighter companions read as highlights.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Gray Dress with Violet Stripes palette card
Gray Dress with Violet Stripes
Henri Matisse · 1942
The Bulgarian Blouse palette card
The Bulgarian Blouse
Henri Matisse · 1920
The Amber Necklace palette card
The Amber Necklace
Henri Matisse · 1937
Lemons and Saxifrages palette card
Lemons and Saxifrages
Henri Matisse · 1943
Landscape near Lyons palette card
Landscape near Lyons
Matthew Smith · 1922
Homage to Mozart palette card
Homage to Mozart
Raoul Dufy · 1915

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Fire engine red

3 palettes where Fire engine red appears prominently — one per artist.

Leopoldo Metlicovitz Palette 3 - Pale Blaze

Leopoldo Metlicovitz

39.3% Fire engine red

design Palette 15 - Pale Vermillion

design

21.6% Fire engine red

Raphael Kirchner Palette 19 - Pale Vermillion

Raphael Kirchner

20.9% Fire engine red

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