Frances Hodgkins Palette 10

Palette Analysis

Frances Hodgkins distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Frances Hodgkins builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. #8E4839 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (2.3%). 49 units of value spread create a palette that is varied but unified - contrast in the service of harmony. The mid-to-high key, cool bias, and moderate chroma point to outdoor observation - sky and diffused daylight as the dominant light source. This is palette 10 of Frances Hodgkins's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.