Edouard Vuillard Palette 11

Palette Analysis

Values in Edouard Vuillard rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #956F3E, is reserved to 8.3% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. A value spread of 60 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. In the context of Edouard Vuillard's full range of palettes, group 11 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.