Marian blue (#00488B) is a deep cool shade that appears across 1 master palette in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Vilhelm Lundstrom and the Cubism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Chinese red (#AA381E), Vegas gold (#C5B358), and Timberwolf (#DBD7D2). The combination forms an austere, contemplative chord, built on a complementary hue split, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with a moderate step up in value that keeps the source recessed.
