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Smoky black

#100C08

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Smoky black (#100C08) is a very dark warm shade that appears across 20+ master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Mykola Yaroshenko, Michael Peter Ancher, and George Cochran Lambdin and the Baroque tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Bistre (#3D2B1F), Pine green (#2A2F23), and Olive Drab (#3C341F). The combination forms a cinematic, smoldering chord, built on closely related hues, reads as a unified warm palette, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Sacrifice of Manoah palette card
Sacrifice of Manoah
Rembrandt
Lane in the Woods palette card
Lane in the Woods
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1900
Philosopher Reading palette card
Philosopher Reading
Rembrandt · 1631
Sunset Over the Marshes palette card
Sunset Over the Marshes
Martin Johnson Heade · 1904
Générosité D'Alexandre palette card
Générosité D'Alexandre
Jérôme-Martin Langlois · 1819
Chloé palette card
Chloé
Jules Joseph Lefebvre · 1875

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Smoky black

6 palettes where Smoky black appears prominently — one per artist.

Mykola Yaroshenko Palette 5 - Obsidian Cinder

Mykola Yaroshenko

63.3% Smoky black

Michael Peter Ancher Palette 4 - Tenebrous Pewter

Michael Peter Ancher

59.1% Smoky black

George Cochran Lambdin Palette 3 - Abyssal Bister

George Cochran Lambdin

58.9% Smoky black

Charles Giron Palette 6 - Abyssal Sienna

Charles Giron

57.6% Smoky black

Guido Reni Palette 12 - Obsidian Sienna

Guido Reni

57.2% Smoky black

Per Krafft the Younger Palette 4 - Abyssal Bister

Per Krafft the Younger

57.2% Smoky black

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