Maroon (#800000) is a deep warm shade that appears across 2 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Francis Gruber, and Augustus John and the Expressionism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Sapphire (#0F52BA), Harvest gold (#DA9100), and Beau blue (#BCD4E6). The combination forms an earthy, lived-in chord, built on a split-complementary spread, plays the source warmth against cooler companions for visible contrast, with a moderate step up in value that keeps the source recessed.
