Lapis lazuli (#26619C) is a deep cool shade that appears across 5 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Istvan Farkas, Raoul Dufy, and Ioannis Altamouras and the Expressionism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Spanish bistre (#807532), Cornsilk (#FFF8DC), and Dark jungle green (#1A2421). The combination forms an austere, contemplative chord, built on a split-complementary spread, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.
