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Firebrick

#B22222

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Firebrick (#B22222) is a mid-tone warm shade that appears across 3 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Anita Malfatti, and Giovanni Battista Gaulli and the Modernismo tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Rich black (#010203), Khaki (#C3B091), and Raisin black (#242124). The combination forms a sun-bleached, daylight chord, built on a split-complementary spread, spans a mixed temperature range, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Plum Blossoms, Green Background palette card
Plum Blossoms, Green Background
Henri Matisse · 1948
The Plum Blossoms palette card
The Plum Blossoms
Henri Matisse · 1948
Still Life with a Magnolia palette card
Still Life with a Magnolia
Henri Matisse · 1941
Red Interior. Still Life on a Blue Table palette card
Red Interior. Still Life on a Blue Table
Henri Matisse · 1947
Harmony in Red palette card
Harmony in Red
Henri Matisse · 1908
Still life with violin: Hommage to Bach palette card
Still life with violin: Hommage to Bach
Raoul Dufy · 1952

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Firebrick

3 palettes where Firebrick appears prominently — one per artist.

Anita Malfatti Palette 6 - Somber Terracotta

Anita Malfatti

22.1% Firebrick

Giovanni Battista Gaulli Palette 5 - Shadowed Caramel

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

20.6% Firebrick

interior Palette 13 - Shadowed Rust

interior

15.6% Firebrick

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